On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Ziggy<[email protected]> wrote: > Aliases appear to provide what I was looking for. I'll have to explore > that option.
Let me know if you need modification. I tried to avoid the temptation to elaborate too much before a real demand wa demonstrated. > > I was imagining the ability to simply rename the devices as you would > in a 'normal' filesystem and have owfs take care of the persistence > automatically. > Well, the initial approach people took was making symlinks to the owfs file entries. That doesn't work for the other access methods (command line, web, etc). Aliases are the attempt to generalize symlinks. > As an aside, the reason I missed the alias file option is that it > isn't mentioned in the man pages for the owfs and owserver programs at > owfs.org (software->man pages->programs). So I did look before asking :) > Considering how hard generating and maintaining documentation is, I'd never say RTFM. Let me look into the man page entries you mentioned. Paul Alfille ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
