On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:54:33AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > the man page in section 4 for random mentions a seed to > get everything started, but I can't seem to find any other > information to cause /dev/random to spit out data yet. The > dnssec-keygen application still hangs so I am obviously missing > some step.
I can't see anything in the manpage that indicates this. Certainly you don't need to manually seed /dev/random for it to work correctly. > /dev/random does exist on the systems in question and > seems to return a null which is not what it is supposed to be > doing. Please run the following commands for me: ls -l /dev/*random rndcontrol dd if=/dev/random bs=64 count=1 | od Kris
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