On 2007/11/01 22:46, J.D. Carlson wrote:

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> 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.