/dev/cua?

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:38:51 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Mike.

> Well, I use /dev/modem which is currently linked to:

> /dev/cua2

> I know the cuaX devices are deprecated now, but some apps wont
> work without them in 2.0.x, so what should I do? I guess I could
> add some lines to rc.local to check the kernel version and update
> the symlink...

One easy solution appears to be the following:

Q> cd /dev
Q> rm -f cua?
Q> for Z in 0 1 2 3 ; do ln -s ttyS$Z cua$Z ; done

That's worked for me...

Best wishes from Riley.

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