From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 05:58:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA14590 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 05:58:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (longstreet.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA14579 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 05:58:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from branson@localhost) by longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id JAA11389; Thu, 30 May 1996 09:00:50 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199605301300.JAA11389@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: your mail To: frankd@yoda.fdt.net (Frank Seltzer) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:00:49 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: from "Frank Seltzer" at May 30, 96 08:48:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] 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 > > I am having trouble using the watch command. I have made snp[0-1] in /dev > and all have root as owner and wheel as group but every time I run watch > I get the error message: > > Fatal: Cannot open snoop device. > > Yes, I am runing this as root. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? Do you have the snp device in your kernel configuration line? pseudo-device snp 3 #Snoop device - to look at pty/vty/etc.. Should look like that. Put it in, re-compile and then try to watch. -branson -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | branson@widomaker.com Ferguson SysAdmin | http://widomaker.com/~branson