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.
