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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is watch(8) broken or am I?
Date: 25 Jun 1996 18:33:09 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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fletcher@techcenter.paccar.com (Arlen Fletcher) writes:

>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

You need to compile the snoop device into the kernel.
Have a look in the LINT kernel config file, and copy the
line there.

	David.