Re: preserving device symlinks across reboots
David Newman schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To use ntpd with an HP GPS receiver on RELENG-6.2, I have a symlink from the first serial port to the HP GPS device: somehost# ls -l /dev/hpgps0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Dec 1 21:06 /dev/hpgps0 -> /dev/cuad0 This works fine since the GPS receiver is attached to cuad0. Problem is, this symlink disappears whenever a reboot is needed, for example after patching the kernel. 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. thanks dn -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHXiTvyPxGVjntI4IRAtEZAKDyOsiRL1ilB3yUwGGH79IeZ65l6QCgrc2V OfqdzIvR9ua1kVtD+bdCzRc= =pfFP -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Check out 'man devfs.conf' Greez, Tino ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: preserving device symlinks across reboots
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 -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
preserving device symlinks across reboots
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To use ntpd with an HP GPS receiver on RELENG-6.2, I have a symlink from the first serial port to the HP GPS device: somehost# ls -l /dev/hpgps0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Dec 1 21:06 /dev/hpgps0 -> /dev/cuad0 This works fine since the GPS receiver is attached to cuad0. Problem is, this symlink disappears whenever a reboot is needed, for example after patching the kernel. 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. thanks dn -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHXiTvyPxGVjntI4IRAtEZAKDyOsiRL1ilB3yUwGGH79IeZ65l6QCgrc2V OfqdzIvR9ua1kVtD+bdCzRc= =pfFP -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"