From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 06:05:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA16915 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 06:05:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kryten.nina.com (dyn049-gnv.51.fdt.net [205.229.51.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA16887 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 06:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from frankd@localhost) by Kryten.nina.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id JAA15532; Thu, 30 May 1996 09:03:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:03:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Seltzer X-Sender: frankd@Kryten.nina.com To: Branson Matheson cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199605301300.JAA11389@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 May 1996, Branson Matheson wrote: > > > > 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 > Thanks for the tip. I didn't even think to look in LINT. -- Frank