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skoal

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From: Frequent Flyer Underworld

Registered: 2004-03-23

Posts: 612

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What's starting my "udev" daemon? I use "devf

I don't know squat about udev and have never used it, but

[skoal@morpheus ~]$ ps -A | grep 'udev|devfs'
  937 ?        00:00:00 udevd
 1042 ?        00:00:00 devfsd

My runlevel is set to 3 in "/etc/inittab".  I've looked at the invocations in "/etc/rc.sysinit" and the devfs daemon is launched, and it's the one I use and prefer.

What is causing the udev daemon to be launched?

Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

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Re: What's starting my "udev" daemon? I use "devf

The fact that you have hotplug and udev installed.  If you remove one of them, udev won't run anymore.

It is a bug, but I really don't know the best way to fix it.  The problem is that udev puts a file in /etc/hotplug.d/default and when /sbin/hotplug is executed, it passes the signal on to everything in /etc/hotplug.d.  Then the udev client side stuff says, "oh, udev isn't started, I'll just start it"

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skoal

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From: Frequent Flyer Underworld

Registered: 2004-03-23

Posts: 612

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Re: What's starting my "udev" daemon? I use "devf

The fact that you have hotplug and udev installed.  If you remove one of them, udev won't run anymore.

Ah, indeed.  Bless you sir.  You are a wise man indeed.

That's pretty sad when I got nothing better to do than hunt around for stale procs.  It was my favorite past time while using Redhat.  Either way, I couldn't figure it out from the init scripts, so, I bow in your presence...