On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 05:41:51PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> In all of Google I found just one of these; on FreeBSD.
> This machine - rebooted several times in the last 18 months - had never
> had this (in /var/log/messages) before; and no changes being done to the
> software, permissions or the machine at all. A simple reboot after power
> failure.
>
> This is the complete message:
> Nov 18 12:39:50 mybox pflogd[3586]: Failed to initialize: /dev/bpf0:
> Permission denied
> Nov 18 12:39:50 mybox pflogd[3586]: Exiting, init failure
> OpenBSD 3.7 stable
>
> Any hint ?
No clue, but upgrading is a good idea and this is what it looks like on
my box:
$ ls -l /dev/bpf*
crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 0 Apr 14 2006 /dev/bpf0
crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 1 Apr 14 2006 /dev/bpf1
crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 2 Apr 14 2006 /dev/bpf2
crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 3 Apr 14 2006 /dev/bpf3
crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 4 Apr 14 2006 /dev/bpf4
crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 5 Apr 14 2006 /dev/bpf5
crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 6 Apr 14 2006 /dev/bpf6
crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 7 Apr 14 2006 /dev/bpf7
crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 8 Apr 14 2006 /dev/bpf8
crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 9 Apr 14 2006 /dev/bpf9
On second thought, are you certain pflogd *should* be listening on bpf0?
And not on, say, pflog0? It's a privilige separated daemon running as
`_pflogd', so that it can't open the above files does make sense...
Joachim
