Fedora/JPilot Symbolic Link and Chmod get reset on boot
 

I'm running Fedorea Core 3 and have jpilot install for sync with my Palm VII. I create a symbolic link to /dev/pilot and chmod the ttyS0 to 0666 and sync works fine. On reboot, the settings are lost. If I create the symbolic link and do the chmod as root, shouldn't the setting be perminant? What's going on here?

Thanks
TZ

Are you using devfs? If you are, this could be your problem. Check out the faq at this URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgoo...cs/devfs.html.

Thanks for the reply. I'm not using devfs...at least I don't think so. I looked at the faq and I checked the /proc/filesystems and there was no entry for it.

Well, you're right - according to the faq, it should be listed under /proc/filesystems if you have support for it compiled in.

When you do `ps ax | grep devfsd` does it show that the daemon is running?

If you (as root) go to /usr/src/linux and do a `make menuconfig`, is "/dev filesystem support" selected under Filesystems -->Pseudo Filesystems?

When I have had this problem in the past, it has been because I have had devfs running. When I stopped using it (menuconfig will tell you that it is obsolete and has been replaced by udev), the problem stopped. I seem to recall, however, someone a while back who had a similar problem, but it was due to a security settings issue. I am sorry, but I don't recall his exact problem or how he fixed it.