Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:54:39 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: William Michael Grim <wgrim@siue.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: pciconf -lv - /dev/pci error Message-ID: <XFMail.20031231135439.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SO4.4.05.10312311139360.26797-100000@cougar.isg.siue.edu>
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On 31-Dec-2003 William Michael Grim wrote: > Good call; I do in fact have securelevel enabled. I would like to keep it > enabled if possible. Is there any way to get to /dev/pci while in > securelevel 2, or do I have to temporarily drop the securelevel through > sysctl? > > Many thanks in advance. Currently there is no way to get to /dev/pci with securelevel raised though there is a PR about it I believe that might have some patches and comments about how to make it work. I don't think you can drop the securelevel via sysctl. > William Michael Grim > Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville > Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. > Phone: (217) 341-6552 > Email: wgrim@siue.edu > > > > On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> On 31-Dec-2003 William Michael Grim wrote: >> > Hey! >> > >> > I have 5.1-RELEASE installed on my system, and I've never needed to do a >> > "pciconf -lv" to probe the system before. However, I tried doing it >> > earlier today after logging in through SSH and doing "su -" to become >> > superuser. I received this error: >> > >> > [root@snow 09:12:42 root]# pciconf -lv >> > pciconf: /dev/pci: Operation not permitted >> > >> > [root@snow 09:15:41 root]# ls -l /dev/pci >> > crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 251, 0 Nov 2 05:09 /dev/pci >> > >> > So, as you can see, the permissions are correct. Perhaps I don't have >> > something compiled into my kernel? I can attach a dmesg and kernel config >> > if it's necessary. >> > >> > Thanks in advance. >> >> Do you have securelevel raised? >> >> -- >> >> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ >> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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