Hi Guy, I'm curious if you found a solution to the headless automount problem on centos? I'm running into a similar problem, though I am not using VNC. My machine is simply headless, with only network and power supplied, and I'm trying to trigger a bash script to run when a new device is added (like USB, DVD, CDROM, etc) using a custom udev rule.
Automount seems to only work for removable devices if a user is logged in locally on the console, not via ssh. Something about the tty nature of the login seems to be affecting how udev handles these removable devices. When a user is logged in locally, it fires the udev rules, and will run my udev rule which triggers other actions. I can't get this to work without the local login though.
any ideas or pointers?
thanks, Jason