watch(8) does not work in jails

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:09:23AM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> > Does /dev/pts/0 actually exist in the jail's devfs instance, and are its
> > permissions correct?
> >
> 
> (In jail) :
> 
> # ls -l /dev/pts/*
> crw--w----  1 markand  tty    0,  94 17 Aug 00:06 /people/dev/pts/0
> crw--w----  1 markand  tty    0,  96 17 Aug 00:06 /people/dev/pts/1
> crw--w----  1 root     tty    0, 101 21 Jul 00:07 /people/dev/pts/2
> crw--w----  1 markand  tty    0, 108 17 Aug 00:06 /people/dev/pts/3
> crw--w----  1 markand  tty    0,  99 16 Aug 01:28 /people/dev/pts/4
> crw--w----  1 markand  tty    0, 112 17 Aug 00:05 /people/dev/pts/5
> crw--w----  1 root     tty    0, 111 17 Aug 00:06 /people/dev/pts/6
> crw--w----  1 root     tty    0, 114 16 Aug 23:53 /people/dev/pts/7
> crw--w----  1 root     tty    0, 100 17 Aug 00:06 /people/dev/pts/8

I think you mounted your devfs incorrectly or you started the jail in the
wrong directory. If ls is run inside the jail, it should be /dev/pts/N, not
/people/dev/pts/N!

Roland
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