Re: /dev/random strangeness

[Warner Losh]

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sheldon Hearn writes:
: your documentation reading.  A shortcut might be to read src/UPDATING.

To be fair, I only committed this entry to UPDATING last night.
Please let me know if it is lame, since I suspect that it isn't very
good right now.

Warner


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Re: /dev/random strangeness

[Sheldon Hearn]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:28:23 PST, Nathan Boeger wrote:

 I have looked through the list (I am new to this list) and saw some
 mention of the /dev/random. However I have a strange problem that was
 not mentioned. After I did a proper make world and updated my system to
 5.0-CURRENT, my /dev/random services do not "start ?".

You probably haven't used mergemaster(8) to update your /etc/rc script.
If you don't know what mergemaster(8) is, you really need to catch up on
your documentation reading.  A shortcut might be to read src/UPDATING.
:-)

While you should really have divined this answer from the archives, it's
understandable that you may not have read through every single one of
the ridiculous messages that have surrounded the recent import of the
new random device.  When people argue fists first, it makes for a lot of
noise. :-(

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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/dev/random strangeness

[Nathan Boeger]

I have looked through the list (I am new to this list) and saw some
mention of the /dev/random. However I have a strange problem that was
not mentioned. After I did a proper make world and updated my system to
5.0-CURRENT, my /dev/random services do not "start ?".

So if I where to do a make depend or start vi etc... anything that needs
this device it will  hang and wait. Now if I do someting like echo
"100"  /dev/random then it pops into service.

Why ?

I have remade all my devices in /dev and  added:

device  random  # Entropy device
optionsNOBLOCKRANDOM   # avoid any blocking on device random

options to my kernel and rebuilt it, however this does not seem to help.

any help would be greatly apprecieated.

thank you

nathan



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