On 31-Dec-2003 William Michael Grim wrote: > Good call; I do in fact have securelevel enabled. I would like to keep it > enabled if possible. Is there any way to get to /dev/pci while in > securelevel 2, or do I have to temporarily drop the securelevel through > sysctl? > > Many thanks in advance.
Currently there is no way to get to /dev/pci with securelevel raised though there is a PR about it I believe that might have some patches and comments about how to make it work. I don't think you can drop the securelevel via sysctl. > William Michael Grim > Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville > Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. > Phone: (217) 341-6552 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> On 31-Dec-2003 William Michael Grim wrote: >> > Hey! >> > >> > I have 5.1-RELEASE installed on my system, and I've never needed to do a >> > "pciconf -lv" to probe the system before. However, I tried doing it >> > earlier today after logging in through SSH and doing "su -" to become >> > superuser. I received this error: >> > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09:12:42 root]# pciconf -lv >> > pciconf: /dev/pci: Operation not permitted >> > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09:15:41 root]# ls -l /dev/pci >> > crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 251, 0 Nov 2 05:09 /dev/pci >> > >> > So, as you can see, the permissions are correct. Perhaps I don't have >> > something compiled into my kernel? I can attach a dmesg and kernel config >> > if it's necessary. >> > >> > Thanks in advance. >> >> Do you have securelevel raised? >> >> -- >> >> John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ >> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> > -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
