Possibly silly question about creating entries in /dev

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Apr 16), Poul-Henning Kamp said:
> In message <3E9DB047.50202 at 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.

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	Dan Nelson
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