deletion of /dev files

[Phillip Susi]

The devices are created when the actual hardware is detected, and 
removed when the actual hardware is.  It wouldn't do any good to keep 
around broken dev nodes for hardware that you have unplugged.

What specific devices are your scripts complaining about?

R Kimber wrote:
> Is it possible to configure udev so that it doesn't remove device files
> in /dev once they've been created?  The man page for udev isn't very
> user-friendly.
> 
> When I run scripts they often complain that the device in
> question doesn't exist.
> 
> Given the enormous size of disks these days I find the
> justification for practice hard to understand.  I would much prefer a
> policy of creating devices when needed but not removing them.
> 
> - Richard