preserving device symlinks across reboots

[Tino Engel]

David Newman schrieb:
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> 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:
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> somehost# ls -l /dev/hpgps0
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  10 Dec  1 21:06 /dev/hpgps0 -> /dev/cuad0
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> 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
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Check out 'man devfs.conf'

Greez, Tino