Someone's being lazy... /dev/dvd not linked to /dev/hda

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 06:32 +0200, Andy Pieters wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> This problem started a while ago but I can't recall after what.
> 
> Now, whenever someone logs in at the console, the links to /dev/dvd 
> and /dev/cdrom aren't made, and I have to do that manually.
> 
> Is there any service in particular that is suposed to make those symlinks or 
> should the gdm or related take care of that?

The default udev rules for CD/DVD devices usually pick this up, but you
could try creating a file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-custom.rules containing:

BUS="ide", KERNEL="hdX", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="dvd cdrom"

Replace "hdX" with the device name that you point your symlinks at,
which from your Subject: would appear to be "hda".

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>