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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is watch(8) broken or am I? Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:33:01 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 14 Message-ID: <31D38AAD.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <4qp064$2hs@ender.techcenter.paccar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Arlen Fletcher <fletcher@techcenter.paccar.com> Arlen Fletcher wrote: > > I've tried running watch(8) as root using the following syntax: > > watch -c /dev/ttyp0 Watch is a very dangerous utility (it lets you snoop on any tty/pty device and even write on it when you use the -W flag), hence it needs to be specially enabled with a `snp' device (well, it needs it to function but the danger is why we don't enable it by default). See /sys/i386/conf/LINT for a prototype entry. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project