From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 12: 4:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E3D14F34 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:04:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id AAA19481; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:59:19 +0600 (UDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id XAA01164; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:56:13 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by localhost.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA00628; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:52:59 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:51:36 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: "Alastair D'Silva" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Floppies In-Reply-To: <00ae01beeabe$664a8c40$6b6d08cb@omen.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG what are you talking about could be possible in the following way. 1. only root can mount/un-mount partitions 2. sudo (from ports collection) allows you to act as root (hey ! make sure you allow to mount/umount ONLY cd & floppy, not ANY partition !) 3. KDE has possibility to make shortcuts, which can include scripts. so you can write you own script (with sudo command), put shortcut on a desktop and viola ! well, I haven't tried it yet. but I think I urgently need it also, because I'll be soon supervisor of a public access computers in our University, I'm not going to reinstall junky microsoft products every day !!!! Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания) Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин) On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Alastair D'Silva wrote: > This is somewhat related to "bug which crashes FreeBSD 3.2" thread. > > I've been interested in making dumb-ish workstations with FreeBSD for a > while, and would really like it if someone mentioned how to auotomatically > mount/unmount removable media like cds and floppies. > > Cheers. > > Alastair D'Silva > Networking Consultant > New Millennium Networking > deece@newmillennium.net.au > 0413 485 733 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message