[clue-tech] upstart

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

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From: "Jed S. Baer" <cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net>
> On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:57:57 -0600
> Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> 
> > > But -- at least AFAICT -- they left out the option most likely to be
> > > preferred by old-hat users, i.e. just mount it.
> > > 
> > 
> > It would probably be a pain to find out how to disable it.  It was a
> > pain to find out how to enable it.
> 
> Well, back when I dinked around an discovered where/how to change "media"
> to "mnt", I marvelled at the complexity of the config files. I don't
> remember if it was HAL or udev -- I think udev. But the move away from
> things like rc files that were pretty easy to read/understand is
> something that bothers me. Not sure how I'd do it differently, but the
> old Unix norm of using a text editor to tweak your configs is being
> slowly abandoned -- at least in some cases. Sure, you can edit XML in vi,
> but figuring it out by reading it?
> 
> jed

You can do it in either place.  After doing it once in HAL, I don't think that's the place for it.  And I'm not sure udev is the right place either.