Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Roger Mason
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

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Roger Mason writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [/dev/random, /dev/urandom] 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

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:24 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded #

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:38:15 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: To see the static /dev you must unmount /dev, which you can only do from a live-cd. That's not true, you can also see it by bind mounting root somewhere else. mount -bind / /mnt ls -l /mnt/dev -- Neil Bothwick If you're not part

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Roger Mason writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [/dev/random, /dev/urandom] 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

[gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded # No idea as what is going on Thanks and Regards Kaushal

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Kaushal Shriyan writes: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded # No idea as what is going on I can reproduce this behaviour when I rename both /dev/random and /dev/urandom. Are they perhaps both missing on your system? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded Does /dev/urandom exist? What are it's permissions? -- Neil Bothwick Never eat more than you can lift. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded Does /dev/urandom exist? What are it's permissions? -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Dale
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. How do i go ahead in fixing this issue Thanks and Regards Kaushal I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the boot runlevel? Looking at the init