On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 07:31:22AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:

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> 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.