[plug] cdrom mounting by itself while online

[The Thought Assassin]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ari Finander wrote:
> Is it normal for a cdrom to mount by itself while you're online?

I can't think of anything about being online that should make your cdrom
mount itself. If you have an automounter, then attempting to read a
particular file or directory might do it. Perhaps a program or daemon on
your system was trying to read from your cdrom?

The second most likely answer, however, is outside influence across the
net. (as you probably guessed) The most likely answer remains that you
mounted it and forgot you did it. :) Or that a program you ran yourself
needed it and mounted it. (did you install packages during that time, and
have a package archive on a cdrom registered on your system?)

Has it ever mounted itself while you were offline?

If it was a cracker, rest assured it's probably not a very good one, if
they mounted your drive and thus alerted you. ;)

-Greg