relationship between Haldaemon and autofs daemon in FC

John (J5) Palmieri johnp at redhat.com
Fri Aug 19 05:29:19 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 22:59 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I've been studying Haldaemon and how it loads cdroms that users insert. 
>    I *guessed* that haldaemon would duplicate/replace the job done by 
> autofs and so I removed autofs.  But then cds that get inserted don't 
> mount themselves anymore.  Does that happen on your systems too?  Why? 
> Aren't those daemons doing the same job?

Hal doesn't automatically mount anything.  It write an entry to fstab
when media is inserted.  If you are logged into gnome gnome-volume-
manager will look at your policy and mount the media if it is set to do
so.

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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>




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