From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 7 16:38:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA15717 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 16:38:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA15712 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 16:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.6/8.8.5) id BAA11262; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 01:38:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199707072338.BAA11262@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199707072205.PAA07630@train.tgci.com> from "Riley J. McIntire" at "Jul 7, 97 03:07:41 pm" To: chaos@tgci.com Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 01:38:16 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, jdc@denver.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Just to jump in here and bug someone else. I had the same problem, > had configured the kernel fo snp, and eventually ran MAKEDEV snp0 per > John-David Childs (thanks!). > > Then I tried: > > #watch ttyp0 > > Got a blank screen and exited quickly. (If it means anything I"m running > rc5v2 on ttyp0, the joint endeavor to break rsa 56 bit.) And I'm doing > this remotely from a (network) telnet session. > > > 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# > > Any ideas? Your snoop device might already be used by another watch. To find out, enter # ps aux | grep [w]atch Wolfgang