I have a server running OpenBSD 4.2-current and acting as a

name server. It always has these messages in the /var/log/daemon

file upon startup:
 Oct 27 05:51:38 racine named[3780]: could not open entropy \

 source  /dev/arandom: file not found

 Oct 27 05:51:38 racine named[3780]: using pre-chroot entropy \

 source  /dev/arandom
That never bothered me, until I needed to use Men and Mice

DNS Server Controller management tools on my OBSD name server,

but that is another story.
Just creating a /var/named/dev/arandom file won't work,

since the partion is mounted as nodev as shown below
/dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local)

/dev/wd0e on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid)

/dev/wd0f on /tmp type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid)

/dev/wd0g on /usr type ffs (local, nodev)

/dev/wd0d on /var type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid)

                                   ^^^^^

so I thought I would try creating a separate partition for

/var/named/dev and not using the nodev parameter

I had used all of the drive during inital installation, so I

-went into disklabel -E wd0

- noticed how much space each cylinder took up

- checked to see how large the swap partition was with a 'p m'

- deleted the swap partition, and recreated it 2 megabytes smaller

- created a new partition 2 megabytes in in size

- saved the results

- modified /etc/fstab to mount the new partition as /var/named/dev

without the nodev option
$ mount

/dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local)

/dev/wd0e on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid)

/dev/wd0f on /tmp type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid)

/dev/wd0g on /usr type ffs (local, nodev)

/dev/wd0d on /var type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid)

/dev/wd0h on /var/named/dev type ffs (local, nosuid)
rebooted the computer

-created the devices in /var/named/dev

   cd /var/named/dev

   /dev.MAKEDEV random
ls -l shows
$ ls -l /var/named/dev

total 0

crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   45,   4 Oct 27 05:53 arandom

crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   45,   3 Oct 27 05:53 prandom

crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   45,   0 Oct 27 05:53 random

crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   45,   1 Oct 27 05:53 srandom

crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   45,   2 Oct 27 05:53 urandom
now when I start BIND via the named command, the messages about

/var/arandom missing no loger appear in /var/log/daemon.
My question, have I compromised the security of the name server?
If anyone is interested, I will post my steps in getting Men and Mice

DNS Server Controller running on OpenBSD using linux emulation.
Thanks,

J.D. Carlson