>>>>> "Postman" == Postman Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Postman> Greetings, I would like to create get some random stuff
    Postman> using /dev/urandom. What I was thinking is using stuff from
    Postman> urandom as the random seed and using the normal rand stuff
    Postman> from perl?

    Postman> Any ideas how I could code this, or is there a better way
    Postman> of actually getting random stuff.

Someone beat you to it.  :)  The Crypt::Random CPAN module is an
interface to /dev/random (and /dev/urandom).

- Chris.
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