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Re: /dev/random as (chrooted) named's entropy source [current]

From: Darrin Chandler (dwchandlerstilyagin.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2008 - 08:56:35 CDT


On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 02:26:26PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> named[9291]: could not open entropy source /dev/arandom: file not found
> named[9291]: using pre-chroot entropy source /dev/arandom

The above logs say to me "can't so this, so doing this instead."

Since it's using the pre-chroot /dev/arandom, it has a good random
source and everything is fine there.

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