[NCLUG] CDROM symbolic link

[dann]

sounds like you are using devfs, and it is automatically recreating
this link when you remove it.  i've never used it, but i believe
there is a devfd config file you can edit to fix this.
	-dann

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:29:56AM -0700, jkemper at prhc.net wrote:
> Last night I installed a CD-RW drive in my linux box (Mandrake 8.1) for the
> first time. I removed the existing CD-ROM drive, so the CD-RW is the only
> CD drive.  I edited the appropriate "append= " line in lilo.conf, installed
> cdrecord and mkisofs, rebooted and I was burning CDs just fine. My problem
> is that now that my cdrom is operating in SCSI emulation mode, my symbolic
> link /dev/CDROM needs to change to point to /dev/scd0, but I can't seem to
> make this happen. If I delete /dev/CDROM, I don't get an error message, but
> either it is not deleted, or else some process recreates it immediately. If
> I run ln with the -f option to force the link to replace the existing one,
> it completes successfully, but the link still points to the old location
> when I check it.
> 
> Is there some daemon running which monitors and "fixes" these links if they
> are broken/changed? Or am I just a brain-dead newbie? Personally, I think
> the second is more likely. ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> _______________________________________________
> NCLUG mailing list
> NCLUG at nclug.org
> http://www.nclug.org/mailman/listinfo/nclug
> 

-- 

dannf at dannf.org