[svlug] fstab, fstab-sync and hald

[Ken Dawson]

Norm,

There should be an administration pull-down menu item setting whether to
do automounting.  I have to force my latest installation to not do this
every time I re-install.  The fun thing is that RedHat/Fedora like to
move these items around, so I can't give you blow-by-blow instructions on
how to find this item.  Just: it's usually there somewhere.

/ken

On 02/07/2011 03:50 PM, norm at dad.org wrote:
> Something or somethings are writing to my /etc/fstab and mounting file systems
> when I do things like insert a USB.
> 
> Call me an old fuddy duddy, but I don't want anything  except me mounting or
> unmounting temporary files systems or messing with /etc/fstab.
> 
> 'man fstab-sync' suggests to me that a daemon, hald, is indirectly responsible.
> There is a file, /etc/hal/hald.conf, but I can't understand it and I can't find
> any documentation for it.
> 
> What I'm tempted to do, is now and whenever I reboot:
> 
>     sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/haldaemon stop
> 
> But I'm not sure what else hald is doing for me and if there would be any
> deleterious consequences.
> 
> I'm using a badly out-of-date Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4, Kernel
> version, 2.6.9-89.ELsmp.
> 
>     Norman Shapiro
>     798 Barron Avenue
>     Palo Alto CA 94306-3109
>     (650) 565-8215
>     norm at dad.org
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