[Tfug] remove from mailing list

Jon bigj at flatwan.net
Thu Dec 6 15:54:40 MST 2007


Requests like this still amaze me...

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>> 1. yasq - how to mount a usb stick - vfat (jblais) 
>> 2. [OT] Dual-phone bluetooth headsets (Choprboy) 
>> 3. Re: JON CONTACT ME OFF LIST (Jon) 
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>> Message: 1 
>> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:29:16 -0700 
>> From: "jblais" 
>> Subject: [Tfug] yasq - how to mount a usb stick - vfat 
>> To: "Tfug" 
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>> Hello 
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>> more stoopid questions today.. 
>>
>> generally when I stick a usb memory stick into the Fedora 5 Linux box, it 
>> automagically gets done. I looked into fstab, it doesn't mention anything 
>> about it. Apparently FC5, or gnome, or whatever, does it's magic in a 
>> Winderseque way. 
>>
>> So now I made an application that does the mount, because I used udev to 
>> always put special device in a known place. When I look at dev, the stick 
>> may show us as sda, or sdb, or... depending on if it was unmounted 
>> correctly (who knows what a user may do), or which plug it was pushed into, 
>> or the phase of the moon (more windersesque). I disabled autobrowse, 
>> because I want my app to look like an instrument, not a desktop. Anyway, 
>> without auto browse, I needed a udev rule to put whatever new sd*1 into a 
>> known place depending on the actual usb port. But doing so, only mounts the 
>> special device, and my app now needs ot mount the file system. 
>>
>> So, without a good example from fstab, or from seeing what the automagic 
>> mount is really doing (which seems OK), I now need to know what parameters 
>> are best. I do not want is the automagic renaming of files - that is names 
>> like HELLO.TXT should not be changed to hello.txt and 
>> ThisIsAStoopidlyLargeNameThatSomePeopleInsistOn.abc being changed to 
>> THIS~024.TXT or some other stuff that causes me a headache when I try to 
>> re-locate a file once written to a stick. 
>>
>> Anyway, I'm currently using something like: 
>> --snip-- 
>> uid_t tUserID = getuid() ; 
>> gid_t tGroupID = getgid() ; 
>> char szUserInfo[128] ; 
>> sprintf( szUserInfo, "uid=%d,gid=%d,umask=0000,shortname=winnt", 
>> (int)tUserID, (int)tGroupID ) ; 
>> if ( mount( "/dev/myPort1, //udev rules do this for me 
>> "/home/user500/Stick1", //I expect file system here 
>> "vfat", 
>> MS_MGC_VAL|MS_NODEV|MS_SYNCHRONOUS, 
>> szUserInfo ) ) 
>> --unsnip-- 
>>
>> this should be the same as: 
>> $ mount -t vfat -o uid=500,gid=500,umaks=0000,shortname=winnt 
>> /dev/myPort1 /home/user500/Stick1 
>>
>> It seems to work. the /dev/myPort1 symlink set by udev rules seems to be 
>> reliable enough. My program always knows to check /home/user500/Stick1 -- 
>> and it seems to work 
>> BUT, I've had enough problems getting all this figured out an working, so I 
>> just thought to ask y'all if anyone knows of or uses some better mount 
>> params. 
>>
>> Thanks 
>>
>> Joe 
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>> Message: 2 
>> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:29:47 -0700 
>> From: Choprboy 
>> Subject: [Tfug] [OT] Dual-phone bluetooth headsets 
>> To: Tucson Free Unix Group 
>> Message-ID: <200712052129.48331.choprboy at dakotacom.net> 
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>> Anybody know of or happy with a particular bluetooth headset? Specifically I 
>> am looking for a dual-pairing headset, one that will pair with 2 or more 
>> phones at the same time and allow you to switch between. 
>>
>> Adrian 
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>> Message: 3 
>> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:40:31 -0700 
>> From: Jon 
>> Subject: Re: [Tfug] JON CONTACT ME OFF LIST 
>> To: Tucson Free Unix Group 
>> Message-ID: <47577D3F.4090308 at flatwan.net> 
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>> "nat" is spelled "NAT" since it's an abbreviation. 
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>> -- 
>> Jon 
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>> David Rice wrote: 
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>>> My nat is configured properly 
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>>>
>>> On 12/5/07, Jon wrote: 
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>>>       
>>>> No, he's not as much of a 'net nazi as Grossman. 
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jon 
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>>>>
>>>> Tyler Kilian wrote: 
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>>>>         
>>>>> I bet you block ident too. 
>>>>>
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>>>>>           
>>>>>> Wankers 
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>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Tyler Kilian 
>>>>> Krispy Kreme - The Edible Linux 
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