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Date:      Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:19:46 +0000 (GMT)
From:      520023893678-0001@t-online.de (P. U. Kruppa)
To:        Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
Cc:        520023893678-0001@t-online.de, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: watch: fatal: cannot open snoop device
Message-ID:  <20030115061352.N689-100000@small.pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030114180819.conrads@cox.net>

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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Conrad Sabatier wrote:

>
> On 14-Jan-2003 P. U. Kruppa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I try to watch user activities with
> ># watch [tty]
> > but keep receiving
> >
> > watch: fatal: cannot open snoop device
> >
> > I have recompiled my kernel with
> >
> > device                snp
> >
> > as the manual says.
> >
> > Any idea what else could be wrong?
>
> You probably just need to make the device files under /dev (assuming you're
> not using devfs).
Thanks for using the plural s in "files".
I tried to
# ./MAKEDEV snp
which didn't work. It has to be
# ./MAKEDEV snp0 snp1
etc...

Regards,

Uli.

>
> --
> Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"
>
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