symbolic link disappears on reboot

[Claude Jones]

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 02:22, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 23:50 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 June 2005 23:35, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > > CJ> ln -s ttyS14 modem
> > >
> > > cp modem /etc/udev/devices
> > >
> > > udev will copy anything in /etc/udev/devices into the freshly created
> > > /dev at boot time.
> >
> > [root at viewridgeproductions2 cj]# ln -s ttyS14 modem
> > [root at viewridgeproductions2 cj]# cp modem /etc/udev/devices
> > cp: cannot stat `modem': No such file or directory
> >
> > I'm still doing something wrong - this is what I got
>
> You missed the implied "cd /dev":
>
> # cd /dev
> # rm -f modem
> # ln -s ttyS14 modem
> # cp -p modem /etc/udev/devices
>
Actually, Paul, I did do that, though it didn't seem so for my post. I did it 
both ways. Finally, I created the symbolic link not in /dev, and moved it 
with File Manager/Konqueror into the relevant directory. That worked. Now, 
when udev starts at boot, I get a momentary 'modem' failed message, followed 
by a SUCCESS in big caps, and boot continues, and the device comes up 
working. I'm sure it's me, but, I'm not sure what I could have been doing 
wrong. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA