On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Steven J. Yellin wrote:

>     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?

It should "just work". But we're supposed to use gnome-mount(1) now.

>     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
>

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