ignore my previous reply, i obviously moved my fingers before engaging my
brain....doh...its nearly friday!!!
as vikas points out the etherload should be owned as root, i found the same
thing when running it for the first time...i blanket changed all the
permissions and broke it....
apologies
Steve
At 16:30 05/12/01 +0000, Steve Foster wrote:
>if you are running it as the root user it should work, if you have setup an
>alternate user, that user will have to be put in the sys group, and the
>permissions changed on the device file, in order to keep access restricted.
>
>chmod g+rw /devices/pseudo/clone at 0:hme
>
>This should then allow the running user to use the "snoop -P" command, and
>also hopefully etherload to work..
>
>HTH
>
>Steve
>
>
>
>At 09:49 05/12/01 -0500, R. Richard Hirtler wrote:
>>I am receiving the following error whenever I attempt to run etherload:
>>
>> etherload: This is a SNIPS version
>> etherload- Reading global config file /opt/snips/etc/snips.conf
>> (etherload).. locked pid-file, started new process (pid=2067)
>> etherload: /dev/hme: Permission denied
>> etherload: removing data, pid file.... Done
>>
>>Here is the portion of the config file which deals with the interfaces:
>>
>> #
>> device hme0
>> bw 30 50 70
>> pps 500 1000 1500
>>
>> #
>> device hme1
>> bw 30 50 70
>> pps 500 1000 1500
>>
>>What is wrong with this setup? Is my configuration incorrect, or does
>>something need to be done at the OS level (Solaris 8) to allow access to
>>the device (/dev/hme)?
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Rick
>>
>>
>>
>Steve Foster
>Senior Systems Administrator
>PSINet Europe
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>
Steve Foster
Senior Systems Administrator
PSINet Europe
Work: +44 (1223) 577322
Mobile: +44 (7720) 425911
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