Dual SOA entries

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at center.osis.gov
Tue May 10 22:37:18 UTC 2005


On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:19:28PM -0400, David Botham wrote:
...
> named could not find /dev/random.  If you are in a chroot environment you 
> will need to create a /dev/random device in the chroot's dev directory.
...

Not all Unices and Unix-like OSes support /dev/random.  Without
commenting on the relative values of ones that don't, one can use an
entropy-gathering daemon like egd [Perl script] to simulate this.  See

<URL: http://egd.sourceforge.net/>.

-- 
Joe Yao
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