Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:02:53 -0700 From: Tech Valley Internet - Tony Kivits <tony@techvalley.ca> To: Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/random in jails Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20070718220030.01b8de00@techvalley.ca> In-Reply-To: <20070719045036.GE27888@rescomp.berkeley.edu> References: <7.0.1.0.0.20070718181625.01d5eeb0@techvalley.ca> <20070719023259.GA27888@rescomp.berkeley.edu> <7.0.1.0.0.20070718202853.01bf3108@techvalley.ca> <20070719034250.GB27888@rescomp.berkeley.edu> <7.0.1.0.0.20070718204749.01c146a8@techvalley.ca> <20070719044912.GD27888@rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20070719045036.GE27888@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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At 09:50 PM 7/18/2007, Christopher Cowart wrote: >On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:49:12PM -0700, Christopher Cowart wrote: > > $ dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=12 2>/dev/null | openssl base64 > > Should give you a base64 encoding of some random data (base64 to prevent > > it from messing up your terminal) if /dev/random is working. > >I meant to point if=jailroot/dev/random. Testing /dev/random for the >host OS isn't going to be too meaningful. > >-- >Chris Cowart >Lead Systems Administrator >Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT >UC Berkeley > Thanks Chris, I figured out what you meant. ;) I think with all my playing I managed to put a symlink in the dev directory that I can't get out. I will try to do a reinstall of the machine and try all the suggestions on a clean environment. Tony
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