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Date:      Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:53:32 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Creating devices under FreeBSD 5.x (was: "/dev/oncore.serial.%d" for Motorola oncore GPS under FREEBSD 5.1)
Message-ID:  <20031106052332.GN88647@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031105125308.GA411@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
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On Wednesday,  5 November 2003 at 13:53:08 +0100, Simon Barner wrote:
>> However, /dev gets regenerated after each reboot so losing the soft
>> links. Is there a way to stop this?
>
> Coincidentally, I struggled with the same problem only 5 minutes ago.
> There is a configuration file /etc/devfs.conf where you can specify
> rules that are applied to your devfs.
>
> Btw. When I want to use cdparanoia on -CURRENT, I have to sym-link /dev/cd0
> to /dev/cd0c. Is this the right way to go, or should that sub-device be
> created automatically?

No.  /dev/cd0c is a nonsense name, since CDs don't have BSD labels.
You need to change your cdparanoia config, and if that's the default
set for cdparanoia, the port needs fixing.

Greg
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