symbolic links

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I'm trying to set my /dev/modem to /dev/ttyLT0.

How can I see if there is a symbolic link to my /dev/modem???

And what if I rm /dev/modem. How can I create it again???

Thanks

[clisham]

rm /dev/modem
ln -s /dev/ttyLTO /dev/modem

The first deletes your original symbolic link which may not point to /dev/ttyLTO. The second recreates the symbolic link to point to /dev/ttyLTO. If you're using a GUI like KDE or GNOME, you can check where /dev/modem currently links to by right clicking on it and choosing properties. I'm not sure how you check via the command line, but I'm sure it's possible.

Thanks
John

[mattmorrow]

Easy one first:
mknod /dev/modem will create the new one. Just do an ls -l /dev/modem and make a note of the major and minor device numbers so that you can reproduce them with the mknod command.
ls -l /dev | grep modem
will show any links to /dev/modem in the /dev directory.

You can use "find" with the -type option to search for sym links: find / -type l -print

find also has a -links option that might be helpful

Or even "ls -lR / | grep modem"


[This message has been edited by mattmorrow (edited 03 January 2001).]

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