Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:44:22 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Scott R." <fluid@sfmidimafia.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possibly silly question about creating entries in /dev Message-ID: <33139.1050522262@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:34:31 PDT." <3E9DB047.50202@sfmidimafia.com>
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In message <3E9DB047.50202@sfmidimafia.com>, "Scott R." writes: >This may be a stupid question, but hopefully it is easily answerable. >I've done some poking around on the man page for devfs and I can't >really find anything that tells me how to create a "fictitious" entry. >Some apps that play or read cd's need the device /dev/cdrom to exist for >them to work. I can create a link manually just using ln -sf /dev/acd0 >/dev/cdrom and the entry will stay there until I reboot the machine. >Upon reboot, the entry is wiped out as devfs re-initializes itself (this >is my guess anyway). Can anyone tell me how to properly create these >types of device entries so that they are recreated each time the system >boots? There's either not much documentation on this subject or I'm >just not looking in the right place. Pointers and suggestions will be >greatly appreciated. I belive /etc/rc.devfs was meant for this sort of stuff, but I am not sure I know if this is still politically correct in RCng days. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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