On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Phusion wrote:
> I have a question about BIND9 that comes with OpenBSD 4.0. I just
> setup BIND and am seeing the following messages in my logs.
>
> named[25017]: could not open entropy source /dev/arandom: file not found
> named[25017]: using pre-chroot entropy source /dev/arandom
>
> I have looked for this and found another person asked about it a few
> years ago. The post I saw was when someone was running 3.6 and the
> response was as follows.
>
> ----------
> This is normal and harmless. All it means is that there was no
> /dev/arandom in the chroot jail so named will continue use the
> descriptor it opened for /dev/arandom before it did the chroot.
> ----------
>
> So, apparently I should always see this message correct?
You could (as root) create the device in /var/named/dev if the
error message is annoying. that would be:
# cd /var/named/dev
# mknod -m 644 arandom c 45 4
Those are the appropriate major/minor device numbers for 4.0.
I assume that /var/named is your named chroot habitat.
man mknod for more info.
Dave
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