From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 15:44:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1685C37B66D for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:44:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.hell.gr (patr530-a083.otenet.gr [212.205.215.83]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id e9DMhRh29143 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 01:43:27 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 803 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Oct 2000 22:43:51 -0000 Message-ID: <20001013224351.802.qmail@localhost.hell.gr> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 01:43:51 +0300 To: Taki Shirayanagi Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: watch References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from taki00@Home.com on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 06:44:17PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 06:44:17PM -0700, Taki Shirayanagi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > hello > i cant get watch to work with freebsd. > I get the Cannot open snoop device errot > Taki You need to do the following things for watch to work for you: 1. Compile snp device support into your kernel and boot with it. See the handbook and LINT configuration file for instruction on doing this. 2. Make the proper device nodes in /dev. For instance if you want to create only one snoop device: # cd /dev # sh MAKEDEV snp0 Then you can run `watch' and be the BOFH you always wished to be :-) -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message