question re list

[David-Paul Niner]

I've read over Mr. Raymond's doctorate on how to ask questions the 
"smart way" in the past (usually when I need to induce vomiting 
quickly), and I can tell you that, although the man's intentions were 
good, the document comes across as just a bit heavy handed.

Also, I've read over the poster's original question, and it seems as 
though he did provide quite a bit of information.

David-Paul Niner

kwhiskers wrote:

>
>
> On 25/10/05, *Craig White* <craigwhite at azapple.com 
> <mailto:craigwhite at azapple.com>> 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...
>
>     http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>     <http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
>
>     Craig
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> 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?
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