From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 22 00:27:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA08474 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 00:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA08467 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 00:27:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.8.8/8.8.3) id DAA12934; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 03:26:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980822032626.A12900@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 03:26:26 -0400 From: Norman C Rice To: Charles Hawkins , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using the watch command. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Charles Hawkins on Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 08:53:21PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 08:53:21PM -0700, Charles Hawkins wrote: > > Hello, > > > I just installed FreeBSD last night, and I have run across a > problem I can not figure out. > > When I attempt to WATCH a port I recieve the following error > watch: fatal: can not open snoop device. > > Can anyone shed some light on this for me? This error message comes from the open_snp() function when it can't open /dev/snp0, /dev/snp1, ..., /dev/snp9. Try cd /dev ./MAKEDEV snp0 I assume that you are running a kernel built with something similar to pseudo-device snp 10 -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message