From: Otto Moerbeek (ottodrijf.net)
Date: Sat Jan 15 2005 - 15:40:26 CST

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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, J.D. Bronson wrote:

> I installed a snapshot of 01-14-2005 and things seem fine
> with one exception
>
> [shadow] 3:30:34pm /dev> cat random
> cat: random: Input/output error
> [shadow] 3:30:39pm /dev>
>
> but if I use 'cat urandom' - I get a ton of data.
>
> I am running postfix and it's complaining of I/O errors when talking to
> /dev/random.
>
> any thoughts on this?

Please do not crosspost.

Quoting man 4 random:

     /dev/random This device is reserved for future support of hardware
                    random generators.

        -Otto

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