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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
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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