Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Tom Buskey
I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/some label after I plug it in. I don't mind having to type something on the command line to trigger it. In Solaris, I put a CD/Floppy/USB in and type volcheck. Then it checks for the presence of something and mounts it. I can type df and see where

Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Joseph Smith
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:01:16 -0400, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/some label after I plug it in. I don't mind having to type something on the command line to trigger it. In Solaris, I put a CD/Floppy/USB in and type volcheck. Then it

Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Joseph Smith
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:01:16 -0400, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/some label after I plug it in. I don't mind having to type something on the command line to trigger it. In Solaris, I put a CD/Floppy/USB in and type volcheck. Then it

Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:01:16 -0400, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/some label after I plug it in. I don't mind having to type something on the command line to

Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Joseph Smith
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:33:48 -0400, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:01:16 -0400, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/some label after I

Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/some label after I plug it in. I don't mind having to type something on the command line to trigger it. In Solaris, I put a CD/Floppy/USB in and type volcheck. Then it checks for the presence of something

Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Tom Buskey
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/some label after I plug it in. I don't mind having to type something on the command line to trigger it. In Solaris, I put a CD/Floppy/USB in and type volcheck. Then it checks for the presence of

Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Ted Roche
On 07/27/2010 10:01 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/some label after I plug it in. I don't mind having to type something on the command line to trigger it. So, does anyone know how to have linux mount the USB drives to /media like the GUI file managers

Troubleshooting DNS speed and reliability issues

2010-07-27 Thread Ralph Mack
Hi folks, I was just doing a little looking into why a web site I'm working on was a bit sluggish coming up and Firebug informed me that the bulk of the time is getting tied up in DNS resolution. It looks like each resolution is taking either 1 or 2 seconds, even for localhost! Since the web

Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/some label after I plug it in. I don't mind having to type something on the command line to trigger it. I can describe one way to do this. A1. Set-up devfs or hotplug or

Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: pmount will get you the `mounting removable volumes/media without being root' feature. /etc/fstab and the plain old mount command will get you the `mounting removable volumes/media without being root' feature.

Re: Troubleshooting DNS speed and reliability issues

2010-07-27 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Ralph Mack ralphm...@comcast.net wrote: I was just doing a little looking into why a web site I'm working on was a bit sluggish coming up and Firebug informed me that the bulk of the time is getting tied up in DNS resolution. It looks like each resolution is

Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/some label after I plug it in. I don't mind having to type something on the command line to

Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: pmount will get you the `mounting removable volumes/media without being root' feature. /etc/fstab and the plain old mount command

Re: Troubleshooting DNS speed and reliability issues

2010-07-27 Thread David Rysdam
An agent or agents purporting to be Ralph Mack said: I've had other problems where DNS drops out entirely for minutes at a time but the network otherwise appears to be fine - pings to IPs, etc. work. Since it affects all the machines here, I figured it was either my router or Comcast DNS.

Re: Troubleshooting DNS speed and reliability issues

2010-07-27 Thread David Rysdam
An agent or agents purporting to be Ralph Mack said: All of my DNS resolution is through Comcast. I have no DNS inside the firewall. I'm an idiot. NM. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

2010-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: pmount will get you the `mounting removable volumes/media without being root'