I want a USB device to be available for mounting on a computer right 
after the device is plugged into a running system.  I.e., I want USB 
hotplugging.  It works on a SL3 system with the hotplug rpm installed. 
How do I make it work with SL5?
      Here's where I am so far: The computer is a x86_64 system running 
SL5.1 with kernel version 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5.  According to the kernel-doc 
rpm's /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt, it 
appears that /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug should hold "/sbin/hotplug".  But it 
now holds nothing, and there is no /sbin/hotplug.  Sourceforge provides 
hotplug-base-2004_03_29-1.noarch.rpm and hotplug-2004_03_29-1.noarch.rpm, 
but they conflict for some reason with usbutils-0.71-2.1.x86_64.  I didn't 
try removing usbutils or forcing installation of the pair of rpms because 
I'd rather ask for help first in order to limit the risk of causing 
trouble by ignorantly flailing around.
     Does SL5 have rpms which we're supposed to use for setting up 
hotplugging?


Steven Yellin