Re: how do I know for certain hotplug is running ?

[Alban Browaeys <browaeys.alban@wanadoo.fr>]

Le Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:24:10 +0200, Bob Alexander a écrit :

> I thought I'd find an hotplugd daemon running but that's not the case 
> (there are udevd and dbus-daemon-1 and hald daemons though ).
> 
> My hotplug is working aok but trying to troubleshoot a friend's problem 
> by email I asked him if hotplug was running but soon discovered I do not 
> know how to assess this.
> 
> TIA,
> Bob

cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
(show hotplug if hotplug is there, udevsend if udev is there , as udev
depends on hotplog it help tracking hotplug too).

or 

dpkg -l hotplug

Cheers
Alban