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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:34:21 -0700
From:      Tech Valley Internet - Tony Kivits <tony@techvalley.ca>
To:        Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/random in jails
Message-ID:  <7.0.1.0.0.20070718202853.01bf3108@techvalley.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20070719023259.GA27888@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
References:  <7.0.1.0.0.20070718181625.01d5eeb0@techvalley.ca> <20070719023259.GA27888@rescomp.berkeley.edu>

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At 07:32 PM 7/18/2007, Christopher Cowart wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:30:50PM -0700, Tech Valley Internet - 
>Tony Kivits wrote:
> > I am attempting to run portions (if not all) of the software called
> > HSphere inside of jailed subsystems of FreeBSD.  I am able to create
> > the jails no problem but the devices /dev/random and /dev/urandom are
> > not created automatically in the jail despite the fact that a handful
> > of other devices are mounted correctly when the jail is created.
> >
> > Is there a specific reason for these devices not being created in a
> > jail or is there a way to create these devices so that they will be
> > available inside a jail?
>
>We run bind instances in FreeBSD jails. This is how we get /dev/random:
>
>| # /etc/devfs.rules:
>| [devfsrules_thin_jail=100]
>| add include $devfsrules_hide_all
>| add include $devfsrules_unhide_basic
>
>| # /etc/rc.conf:
>| jail_cachingdns_devfs_enable="YES"
>| jail_cachingdns_devfs_ruleset="devfsrules_thin_jail"
>
>HTH,
>
>--
>Chris Cowart
>Lead Systems Administrator
>Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
>UC Berkeley
>



Thanks Chris,

So if my jail is called "cp", the only thing that I would have to 
change from your scripts would be replace to replace "cachingdns" with "cp"?

Tony 




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