From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 6 18:50:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA17182 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 18:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from milehigh.denver.net (milehigh.denver.net [204.144.180.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA17177 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 18:50:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jdc@localhost) by milehigh.denver.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA13287; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 19:55:43 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 19:55:43 -0600 (MDT) From: John-David Childs Reply-To: John-David Childs To: "Riley J. McIntire" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199707070154.SAA01880@train.tgci.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Riley J. McIntire wrote: > > You have to enable the snoop device in your kernel (see the LINT file). > > Recompile, install the new kernel and reboot. > > -- > > > I just compiled a new kernel with the pseudo-device snp and get the > same message: > > su-2.00# watch /dev/ttyp0 > Fatal: Cannot open snoop device. > Yup...and then you have to create the snoop device in the /dev directory with MAKEDEV (a bourne shell script found in the /dev directory). -- John-David Childs (JC612) @denver.net/Internet-Coach System Administrator Enterprise Internet Solutions & Network Engineer 901 E 17th Ave, Denver 80218 "I used up all my sick days... so I'm calling in dead!"