Hi Chris,
I am glad I could help.
How do you remove the device? Do you unmount it and then physically
remove it? or just physically remove it?
If you only remove it, how would the OS know that you were going to
remove it? You have to unmount it first, specially if you wrote or
deleted files/dirs
Hello Rodolfo,
That works!
After reading some documentation, I have found that pluralisation of
anything means that the search looks for matches further up the tree.
The match does not have to be on the local node. So ATTR matches this
node and ATTRS matches up the tree. Same for DEVICE and
Hi Chris,
As with almost any other software, developers will ask you to test the
latest version. I think HAL reads the gconf configuration correctly
since 5.14. Anyway, don't spend too much time with HAL; it is
deprecated.
udev is a device manager. It creates the files (device nodes) in the
/dev
Rodolfo,
This did the trick. You would not believe how close I was to working
this out before. I was just missing the "=". Oh well.
The hal version:
peterpan:/etc/hal/fdi/policy# hald --version
HAL package version: 0.5.11
I guess the problem I am experiencing is a bug on the package. Are y
Hi Chris,
The line should be:
gid=
Note the '=' after 'gid'. The '=' means that HAL accept any value for that key.
And the gconf mount options should include 'gid=1004'.
> On a related but different topic, how do I force hal to always mount the usb
> card as me (chris). I am not the only use
Hello Rodolfo,
Replied earlier, but its gone somewhere. I looked at the doco. Thanks
for the reference. Did you update it just for me? [Thanks.]
I used the doco to add a local rule for accepting guids in the mount
command, as configured via gconf. A mount controlled by goconf now
accepts a g
Hi Chris,
The "Changing default mount options" section at
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/general/hal.html may
help.
--
Rodolfo Martínez
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Chris Perry wrote:
> Hello,
> I have used Debian for over a decade and can work most things out. But I
> ha
