On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:33:42 -0500, "Sagara Wijetunga" <sag...@tomahawk.com.sg> wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the symlink in place > of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially in version 7.2? > > 1. A disk > /dev/camera -> /dev/da0s1 > > 2. A network device > re0 -> lan0
That's no problem: Use the "link" statement: "link <source> <target>", such as link da0s1 camera link re0 lan0 in you /etc/devfs.conf file. See the manual page for this file for more information, or see the example entries in this file. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"