On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 07:31:22AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/11/01 22:46, J.D. Carlson wrote: > > > > I have ignored them, for a number of years and never worried about > > it. But management dictates we move to Men and Mice to manage dns. > > If I run their DNS Server Controller under linux emulation and the > > OpenBSD named is running as a chroot, it looks for a /dev/random or > > /dev/arandom inside the chroot. It fails if it is not there: > > > > Men and Mice DNS Server Controller for BIND[32343]: Unable to > > initalize crypting library. Random device not readable. > > > > So my choice was to give up OpenBSD as our name servers (never!) and > > run Linux or FreeBSD (also never!), or run OBSD named without > > the chroot. It seemed like a compromise I could live with. > > There's nothing magic about device nodes, you can just create > them yourself. See mknod(1) and /dev/MAKEDEV. > To have them work the partition can not be mounted nodev, which /var is. I shoukd have said it fails if it doesn't work. A simple test was to run
dd if=/var/dev/arandom bs=1 count=5 after I created the device. It fails if the partition is mounted nodev.
