Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:00:40 -0700 From: "Scott R." <fluid@sfmidimafia.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possibly silly question about creating entries in /dev Message-ID: <3E9DB668.9020502@sfmidimafia.com> In-Reply-To: <20030416194804.GC7923@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3E9DB047.50202@sfmidimafia.com> <33139.1050522262@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030416194804.GC7923@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 16), Poul-Henning Kamp said: > >>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. > > > /etc/rc.d/devfs will source /etc/rc.devfs if it exists, so it will > still work. Sure 'nuff, there it is! Thanks for the pointer. I was hoping the answer would be this simple. :)
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