Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 23:46:03 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Sagara Wijetunga" <sagara@tomahawk.com.sg> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to symlink devfs devices? Message-ID: <20090708234603.1bc9b315.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090708123342.22660.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> References: <20090708123342.22660.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net>
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On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:33:42 -0500, "Sagara Wijetunga" <sagara@tomahawk.com.sg> wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the symlink in place > of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially in version 7.2? > > 1. A disk > /dev/camera -> /dev/da0s1 > > 2. A network device > re0 -> lan0 That's no problem: Use the "link" statement: "link <source> <target>", such as link da0s1 camera link re0 lan0 in you /etc/devfs.conf file. See the manual page for this file for more information, or see the example entries in this file. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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