On 12/11/07, Andreas Maus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:08:42AM +1100, mufurcz wrote: > > b) lines 34 and 35: `could not open entropy source /dev/arandom: file not > > found` and `using pre-chroot > > entropy source /dev/arandom` complaining about a missing > > /var/named/dev/arandom device. > Same as above. /dev/arandom is _REALLY_ /var/named/dev/arandom. > So just why not creating this device? > cd /var/named/dev > mknod arandom c 45 4 > > > What BIND has to do with the laws of thermo-dynamics? Can I safely ignore > > the above messages. > BIND needs /dev/arandom for some stuff like generating random IDs.
on OpenBSD it doesn't. There was a mail from Theo regarding exactly this error message, stating that on OpenBSD BIND doesn't use (or need) this. You could search the archives... --knitti
