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Subject: Re: preserving device symlinks across reboots
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On Tue, December 11, 2007 06:49, David Newman wrote:

>
> How best to preserve the symlink across reboots? I created an rc.local
> file making a new symlink, but maybe there's a better way.
>

Have a look at /etc/devfs.conf

man 5 devfs.conf

Peter

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