Hi all This is a followup to inform thsoe thast helped me with suggestions on what I tried and eventually did.
On Fri May 05, Michael Lake wrote: > In an earlier post I was having probs with getting subversion to work on a > server as there wasn't enough entropy. I can't use the rng-tools as it's a > virtual server and it does not have access to that hardware (it hangs > actually if I try). Hence I have compiled subversion now and I have to > install it. I'm testing it first though on my laptop which already has > cvs2snv, websnv, trac which depend on subversion. Although I had downloaded the subversion source and recompiled apr to use /dev/urandom that wouldn't then be part of the package management and would need to be updated manually every now and again. Thus I wanted an easier solution. Ian Wienand suggested: > If you have root, why not symlink /dev/random to /dev/urandom and > avoid the need for entropy. I'm sure the security implications are > minimal. When I wondered how can I go back again and create the character device? Ian suggesed I read up on man mknod which I did. I decided to try and make /dev/random the same as /dev/urandom first. $ ls -l /dev/random crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 8 Jun 20 2002 /dev/random $ ls -l /dev/urandom cr--r--r-- 1 root root 1, 9 Jun 20 2002 /dev/urandom Create a new /dev/random # mv random random.old # mknod random c 1 9 # Operation not permitted So I could not create a new device on the virtual server. I ended up just doing the symlink and I had the old random saved as random.bak anyhow. /dev# ln -s urandom random /dev# ls -l random lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 16 17:32 random -> urandom # # svnadmin create /var/lib/test Thus now svnadmin runs fine and does not hang. Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
