how can I fix 'watch' ? FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE

Dimitry Andric dim at xs4all.nl
Wed Apr 16 13:56:39 PDT 2003


On 2003-04-16 at 22:43:51 n0n4m3 wrote:

> watch: fatal: cannot open snoop device .

Have you created the /dev/snp0 device? If not, run

  MAKEDEV snp0

as root in the /dev directory. Also read the watch(8) and snp(4)
manpages.  Btw, I hope that you realize that snooping people is not
very polite. :)


> i have kldload'ed snp.ko

You don't need to load it manually, watch(8) will do it for you, if
needed.



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