symbolic link disappears on reboot

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "CJ" == Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> writes:

CJ> I thought I was doing this right, but after a reboot my symbolic
CJ> created thusly in the /dev directory, disappears.

/dev exists only in memory, so nothing you put there will survive a
reboot.  It is created at boot time by the udev system.

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.

 - J<