Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:49:24 +0000 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Sagara Wijetunga <sagara@tomahawk.com.sg> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to symlink devfs devices? Message-ID: <3a142e750907081049sc76dfd2o4d13d9ea6a2e983c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090708123342.22660.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> References: <20090708123342.22660.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net>
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> > 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 devfs.conf(5) > > 2. A network device > re0 -> lan0 same as above, but there is way to completly hide re0: # ifconfig re0 name lan0 -- Paul
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