symbolic link disappears on reboot

[Paul Howarth]

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

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>