Bug 133989

Summary: /dev/dvd symbolic link isn't permanent
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Chase Stephens <chase.stephens>
Component: udevAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version: 4.0CC: rvokal
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Description Chase Stephens 2004-09-28 20:42:37 UTC
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Description of problem:
A symbolic link created by root at /dev/dvd works until reboot. When
the machine restarts, the link is gone.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create symbolic link /dev/dvd to dvd drive
2. restart computer
3. ls -l /dev | grep dvd returns nothing
    

Actual Results:  The link is no longer there

Expected Results:  The link should be permanenet

Additional info:

Can be worked around by adding an init script to create the link at
each boot

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-09-29 01:12:59 UTC
See 'man udev' for how to set this up by default.