From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 7 15:55:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA14195 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 15:55:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from train.tgci.com (train.tgci.com [205.185.169.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA14188 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 15:55:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from belana (belana.tgci.com [205.185.169.100]) by train.tgci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA08127; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 16:01:57 -0700 Message-Id: <199707072301.QAA08127@train.tgci.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Riley J. McIntire" To: John-David Childs , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 16:03:55 +0000 Subject: Re: your mail Reply-to: chaos@tgci.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Riley J. McIntire wrote: > > > > Now I get this: > > > > su-2.00# ls -l /dev/snp* > > crw------- 1 root wheel 53, 0 Jul 7 13:14 /dev/snp0 > > su-2.00# who > > rileyj ttyp0 Jul 6 15:14 (my ip stuff) > > rileyj ttyp1 Jul 7 12:50 (my ip stuff) > > su-2.00# watch ttyp0 > > Fatal: Cannot open snoop device. > > su-2.00# > > OOPS...I should have read more closely before writing... > You also need to run the watch program as root (in addition to making > sure that you use the path: watch /dev/ttyp0) > su-2.00# whoami root