[PLUG] Loss of symbolic link on re-boot

Eric Wilhelm scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Wed Dec 26 07:35:29 UTC 2007


# from Rogan Creswick
# on Tuesday 25 December 2007 21:53:

>> Moonguide:/dev # ln -s ttyS0 ttyX10
>>...
>/dev is probably not a "real" filesystem -- it's most likely created
>by udev or devfs on each boot.  You'll need to dig around in the
>configuration files for those systems to make an entry stick around.

Yes.  Definitely udev on anything which doesn't hit a narrow window a 
few years ago.  You need a link entry in the udev config (`man udev`.)

--Eric
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