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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!nwfocus.wa.com!ender.techcenter.paccar.com!usenet From: fletcher@techcenter.paccar.com (Arlen Fletcher) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Is watch(8) broken or am I? Date: 25 Jun 1996 15:21:40 GMT Organization: PACCAR Technical Center Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4qp064$2hs@ender.techcenter.paccar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jane.techcenter.paccar.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 I've tried running watch(8) as root using the following syntax: watch -c /dev/ttyp0 I've telneted into my machine from another, so there is a session on p0. The response to the above command is: Fatal: Cannot open snoop device I'm not finding any snp devices in /dev. Do I need to build one first? /dev/MAKEDEV isn't interested in building one. TIA