From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: A symbolic link created by root at /dev/dvd works until reboot. When the machine restarts, the link is gone. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 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
See 'man udev' for how to set this up by default.