>>>>> "CJ" == Claude Jones <claude_jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: CJ> I thought I was doing this right, but after a reboot my symbolic CJ> created thusly in the /dev directory, disappears. /dev exists only in memory, so nothing you put there will survive a reboot. It is created at boot time by the udev system. CJ> ln -s ttyS14 modem cp modem /etc/udev/devices udev will copy anything in /etc/udev/devices into the freshly created /dev at boot time. - J<