On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:33:33PM +0100, Jörg Schütter wrote: > Hi > > Is there a way to create symlinks in /proc? > I'm renaming my network interfaces w/ udev rules, so the name of > my wireless-card becomes eth_wlan. Kismet tries to find a file in > /proc/drivers/aironet/eth_wlan, but this directory does not > exist but /proc/drivers/aironet/eth0 does exist. I assume this > path is unafected by udev-rules. > To make kismet run I just want to create a symlink from eth0 to > eth_wlan in /proc/drivers/aironet/ > > Jörg > > -- > Jörg Schütter http://www.schuetter.org/joerg > joerg@schuetter.org http://www.lug-untermain.de/ This might not be relevant in your case, but why not make the symlink to the device itself with udev. I.e. /dev/eth_wlan is a symlink to /dev/eth0. If that is what you need, just add the SYMLINK="eth_wlan" to your udev rule, instead of renaming it with NAME="eth_wlan". KERNEL=="eth0", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="eth_wlan" or something like that... Simo -- :r ~/.signature
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