<div>On 25/10/05, Craig White <<a href="mailto:craigwhite@azapple.com">craigwhite@azapple.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 19:56 -0600, kwhiskers wrote: > > > On 25/10/05, Craig White <<a href="mailto:craigwhite@azapple.com">craigwhite@azapple.com</a>> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:09 -0600, kwhiskers wrote: > > How does one get a question answered on this list? > > > > I have posted my question, including all the relevant > details, twice > > and have not received one response. > > > ---- > Since you asked... > > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html">http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html</a> > > Craig > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> > To unsubscribe: > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> > > I have glanced at the article. Perhaps you think my question is not > technical enough or off topic? Or that I haven't tried hard enough to > find the solution myself? > > Well, I have scoured the documentation on hotplug, automount, udev, > autofs (though I prefer not to use this method. It's not used for > automountng cds, so there must be another way), etc etc. > > I have scoured dozens and dozens of pages on google. They are all > pointing to the same ideas I have had, but no solutions are posted, or > when there are any, they are complicated patchwork scripts that one > should trustingly run on one's system. No thanks. > > Then the solutions are all ancient, dating from 2000-early 2004, pre- > Fedora 3, in any cae, which would lead one to suspect that this > problem has long since been solved in the newer distributions. > > I have looked into supermount, pmount, usbmount, kde volume manager, > all of which are either old software no longer being maintained, for > debian but never released for other distros (leading one to suspect > they are not required there), etc etc. > > I have spent at last 3 days on this working from afternoon into the > night. I have run every permutation and combination of fstab, udev > rules and whatever I could think of, rebooting, mounting and > umounting, all to no avail. > > Finally, I rewrote the subject line, in the hope that the problem > might pique more interest if phrased differently. > > So, what is the 'smart way' to ask? ---- I didn't follow your previous question so I had no way to know. I only looked at what I had in front of me and you asked - so I answered with the only appropriate answer to the question in front of me. When you have to ask again, it's much better to rephrase the question probably including what you have tried additionally since the original question. Again, I still don't even know what your question is. Sorry to continue this phase of the thread. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com"> fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div> No problem. Just since writing these last 2 emails on this thread, 2 Brazilian antispam mails arrived that seem to be part of this thread. This is very odd. There seem to be a lot of spammers on this list. I use this account only for redhat, nowhere else, and have never mentioned it anywhere else and my spambox is filled to overflowing with mostly Chinese spam since I have registered with this redhat list. My other gmail accounts never receive any at all and they are known in some yahoo forums.