Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dale writes: > >> Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > >> > Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. >> > >> I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the >> boot runlevel? > > Looking at the init script it seems like if the character > device /dev/urandom does not exist, it exits directly. > > Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it could > fail?
Some kernel option? grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_AMD=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_GEODE=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA=y Roger -- [email protected] mailing list

