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error calling: "symlink" in "GLOBAL"

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Subject: error calling: "symlink" in "GLOBAL"
From: Frédéric L. W. Meunier <0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 02:32:31 -0300
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Hi. I'm using

#REGISTER        vc/.*           MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER      vc/.*           RMOLDCOMPAT

and want to create some symlinks instead. Using

REGISTER       vc/1    CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink vc/1 tty1
UNREGISTER     vc/1    CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink  tty1

works but I get the following messages:

Started device management daemon for /dev
error calling: "symlink" in "GLOBAL"
error calling: "symlink" in "GLOBAL"
error calling: "symlink" in "GLOBAL"
error calling: "symlink" in "GLOBAL"
error calling: "symlink" in "GLOBAL"
error calling: "symlink" in "GLOBAL"
error calling: "symlink" in "GLOBAL"
error calling: "symlink" in "GLOBAL"
error calling: "symlink" in "GLOBAL"
error calling: "symlink" in "GLOBAL"

What's wrong ? I'm a bit confused about the devfsd man page
syntax for symlinks:

REGISTER     mydir/mydev  CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink $devname mydev
UNREGISTER   mydir/mydev  CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink  mydev

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