devfs/hotplug not working

[JoeHill]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:18:30 -0500
Jason Shein disseminated the following:

> First thing I would do is install and run rkhunter  
> http://www.rootkit.nl/   ( running this in a weekly / daily cronjob is a 
> good idea )
> 
> Make sure it is not a rootkit running those "zombie" processes, then 
> once you are certain you still have control of your system, go on trying 
> to diagnose the repair.
> 
> For more info 
> http://cayfer.bilkent.edu.tr/~cayfer/linux/Detecting_and_Removing_Rootkits.html
> 
> Hopefully you are not, but still worth a look

Actually, I've run chkrootkit several times, never found anything. That wasn't
really the point, though. I only mentioned that I dropped to runlevel 1 in case
it was relevant to my problem, which is that my USB device is not being
recognized.

The Zombie process, if I'm even being accurate in calling it that, was
ROX-Filer, had to 'kill' it in X, but the process wouldn't go away.

Anyhow, I say on another list that I'm supposed to have an entry:

/etc/init.d/hotplug

...which I don't. Maybe that's why the Visor isn't being picked up?

Thanks!

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