ucblinks(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands ucblinks(1B)NAMEucblinks - adds /dev entries to give SunOS 4.x compatible names to
SunOS 5.x devices
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/ucblinks [-e rulebase] [-r rootdir]
DESCRIPTIONucblinks creates symbolic links under the /dev directory for devices
whose SunOS 5.x names differ from their SunOS 4.x names. Where possi‐
ble, these symbolic links point to the device's SunOS 5.x name rather
than to the actual /devices entry.
ucblinks does not remove unneeded compatibility links; these must be
removed by hand.
ucblinks should be called each time the system is reconfiguration-
booted, after any new SunOS 5.x links that are needed have been cre‐
ated, since the reconfiguration may have resulted in more compatibility
names being needed.
In releases prior to SunOS 5.4, ucblinks used a nawk rule-base to con‐
struct the SunOS 4.x compatible names. ucblinks no longer uses nawk
for the default operation, although nawk rule-bases can still be
specifed with the -e option. The nawk rule-base equivalent to the
SunOS 5.4 default operation can be found in /usr/ucblib/ucblinks.awk.
OPTIONS-e rulebase Specify rulebase as the file containing nawk(1) pat‐
tern-action statements.
-r rootdir Specify rootdir as the directory under which dev and
devices will be found, rather than the standard root
directory /.
FILES
/usr/ucblib/ucblinks.awk sample rule-base for compatibility
links
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWscpu │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOdevlinks(1M), disks(1M), ports(1M), tapes(1M), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 13 Apr 1994 ucblinks(1B)
