From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 21:12:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8825437B401 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:12:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uqam.ca (anis.telecom.uqam.ca [132.208.250.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFAC243E6E for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bg591591@er.uqam.ca) Received: from anis.telecom.uqam.ca (anis.telecom.uqam.ca [132.208.250.6]) by sortant.uqam.ca (8.12.2/8.12.1) with SMTP id g8K4B1PP026441 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:11:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from antivirus.uqam.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by anis.telecom.uqam.ca (NAVGW 2.5.1.12) with SMTP id M2002092000110205724 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:11:02 -0400 Received: from intrusion (nobel.si.uqam.ca [132.208.219.1]) by intrant.uqam.ca (8.12.2/8.12.1) with SMTP id g8K4AXIW026407 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:10:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <007501c2605b$a99c04e0$011ea8c0@intrusion> From: "Tien Duc Nguyen" To: References: <004201c25ec5$9d4ef180$011ea8c0@intrusion> <20020918092827.GA28082@ei.bzerk.org> Subject: Re: number of snoop devices Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:10:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My problem was this: -for the 10th + snp devices, I had to create it by hand with mknod; - I had an old version of watch, the one that comes with 4.6-REL does have the option of specifying the snoop device. Only weirdness I see is that the tty must be open before executing watch on it, else there's an error. But that's not a big deal. Thanks for directing me to the right place. Tien Duc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruben de Groot" To: "Tien Duc Nguyen" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 5:28 AM Subject: Re: number of snoop devices > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:43:54PM -0400, Tien Duc Nguyen typed: > > Hi all, > > > > On a stock FreeBSD 4.6 Release install, after recompiling the kernel with 25 > > snoop devices, I'm stuck with at most 10 watch-ed snoop devices. At first, > > /dev/MAKEDEV snp10 doesn't work, so I've created the 11th snoop device by > > hand with 'mknod snp10 c 53 `unit2minor 10`' but watch complains about > > attaching to the 11th tty (ttypa). Therefore, I was wondering if there's a > > limit in the number of snoop devices watch can monitor (having seen anyone > > using 3-5 devices), or am I doing something wrong here? > > You probably have to recompile watch. > > > > > Any suggestions greatly appreciated! > > > > Tien Duc > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message