I've become accustomed over many years to having a symlink at /dev/cdrom pointing to my CD drive. I mostly use autofs to access the drive as that avoids the need to explicitly mount CDs, and motly also avoids having to unmount them. autofs is configured at I expect: [root@dugong ~]# grep cd /etc/auto.misc cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom [root@dugong ~]# Perhaps not perfectly considering selinux, but you get the idea. /misc exists. the symlink doesn't exist. However, others do: [root@dugong ~]# ls -l /dev | grep ^l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 23 21:32 core -> /proc/kcore lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 23 21:32 fb -> fb0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 23 21:32 fd -> /proc/self/fd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 23 21:33 floppy -> fd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 23 21:32 MAKEDEV -> /sbin/MAKEDEV lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 23 13:33 par0 -> lp0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 23 21:32 ram -> ram1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 23 21:32 ramdisk -> ram0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Nov 23 21:32 root -> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 23 21:32 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 23 21:32 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 23 21:32 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 23 21:32 systty -> tty0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 23 21:32 XOR -> null [root@dugong ~]# My two nahant boxes do, and the one that lacks a floppy disk also lacks the symlink. Phew! In this system, at CD drive is actuall a DVD-ROM drive at hdd. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
