From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 21:23:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F3816A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 21:23:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE9D43FE5 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 21:23:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 405B42BC0D for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:23:35 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 65B94511FA; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:53:32 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:53:32 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Simon Barner Message-ID: <20031106052332.GN88647@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1067935962.1551.6.camel@hawk.gnome.co.uk> <20031105091200.GG48580@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1068034900.34079.126.camel@hawk.gnome.co.uk> <20031105125308.GA411@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="iwjEIfU64POCkTAH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031105125308.GA411@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Chris Stenton 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) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 05:23:38 -0000 --iwjEIfU64POCkTAH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --iwjEIfU64POCkTAH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/qdrUIubykFB6QiMRAhT4AJ0cQ+lQ6IdEXKsPdjEYcssqp0HknQCcDUBm uIVYW939pWpDwXmNp1Nfvug= =rM87 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --iwjEIfU64POCkTAH--