Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:41:27 -0600 (CST) From: William Michael Grim <wgrim@siue.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: pciconf -lv - /dev/pci error Message-ID: <Pine.SO4.4.05.10312311139360.26797-100000@cougar.isg.siue.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20031231123309.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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. 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" >
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