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On Sunday 29 June 2003 09:32 am, Len Philpot wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:18:22PM -0400, Dave wrote:
> > OK, finally got around to installing RedHat 9 ... it seems fairly
> > clean, but there's some stuff that pushes my buttons pretty hard.
> > Does anybody know how I can STOP AUTOMATICALLY LOADING CDs?
> >
> > Whew. Sorry for shouting, but I really get irked when I put a CD in
> > the drive, and a file manager window pops up _without_ my asking. *I*
> > will determine whether I open a new window, or navigate there in one
> > that's already opened. So how do I turn that feature off?
>
> Amen, brother!
>
> And, ...it's not the best way, but 'chmod 644 /usr/bin/autorun' sure
> did feel good when I did it. :-)
>
> However, the best way is just to turn it off via the GUI.

If the user is using the KDE desktop:
rm ~/.kde/Autostart/Autorun.desktop 

Other options:
rpm -e autorun
rpm -e magicdev

Removing both packages is the first thing I do on a new system.
 
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