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Creating Standard Device Names

Use symbolic links to assign abbreviated standard device names. To create a link between the character-special device name and another filename, use the link command (usually ln).

To verify that both the devices and the links exist, execute the command ls -l (ls -lg on BSD) on your device directory. The following example shows links to raw devices. If your operating system does not support symbolic links, hard links work as well.

% ls -lg
crw-rw---  /dev/rxy0h
crw-rw---  /dev/rxy0a
lrwxrwxrwx /dev/my_root@->/dev/rxy0h
lrwxrwxrwx /dev/raw_dev2@->/dev/rxy0a

Extended Parallel Server requires standard device names across all coservers.

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