Re: BIND and /var/arandom missing fix]

2007-11-02 Thread J.D. Carlson
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 07:31:22AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: 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

Re: BIND and /var/arandom missing fix]

2007-11-02 Thread J.D. Carlson
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:46:53AM -0400, Matt Rowley wrote: 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 Why not make /var/named its own partition? I.e., one mounted without nodev.

Re: BIND and /var/arandom missing fix]

2007-11-02 Thread Unix Fan
I'm failing to see the problem, but really.. Linux emulation for mission critical applications just has Bad Idea written all over it.. I personally don't see a problem with creating an additional partition which allows such pseudo devices though...

Re: BIND and /var/arandom missing fix]

2007-11-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
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

Re: BIND and /var/arandom missing fix]

2007-11-02 Thread Matt Rowley
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 Why not make /var/named its own partition? I.e., one mounted without nodev. cheers, Matt

BIND and /var/arandom missing fix

2007-11-01 Thread J.D. Carlson
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

Re: BIND and /var/arandom missing fix

2007-11-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
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

Re: BIND and /var/arandom missing fix]

2007-11-01 Thread J.D. Carlson
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:53:09PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: 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