FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 available

[Radek Kozlowski]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:01:31AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > And, do you know if devfs.rules can create links such as are created
> > > by devfs.conf? I want to have /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd symlinked to my
> > > DVD drive when I attach it.
> > 
> > I think devfs.conf is the right place for it (assuming /dev/acd0 is your
> > dvd drive):
> > 
> > link	acd0	dvd
> > link	acd0	cdrom
> 
> I think you missed my point on the creation of symlinks. I have them in
> devfs.conf, but those operations are only done at boot time. If I have
> no DVD in my system at boot time and add one later, I need to manually
> create the symlinks. 

Well, for me it's different and I just checked on my system to verify it
- dvd and cdrom symlinks were created at boot time even though there was
no media inside, and continue to exist after mounting and umounting a
cdrom.

-Radek