On Tuesday, 26 May 2015  3:20 PM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote:
> On 5/26/15, Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> wrote:
>> Apparently a change was made to Fossil in February to issue warnings
>> about not being able to open /dev/null and /dev/urandom.  I'm running
>> a Fossil server from inetd under FreeBSD, and am getting these
>> messages when I go into Administration.  Since I can't do anything
>> about the underlying reason (at least, I don't think I can), can I do
>> anything to suppress the messages?
>>
>
> I think the best solution is to actually create a /dev/null and
> /dev/urandom inside of your chroot jail.  (That's what the
> www.fossil-scm.org website does.)

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to that.

> There is no setting to run that warning off.  But you can comment-out
> the code.  https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/info/97d246c3?ln=80-90

OK - I'll have to consider if the annoyance of the warnings is enough
for me to want to maintain a patched version of Fossil.  Thanks for
the info.

-- 
Will

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