From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 19 05:02:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F1B16A400 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:02:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tony@techvalley.ca) Received: from mail2.techvalley.ca (mail2.techvalley.ca [66.199.130.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB8A13C461 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:02:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tony@techvalley.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.techvalley.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E1D12304CD; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:02:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at techvalley.ca Received: from mail2.techvalley.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.techvalley.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 5V7FWqqa9lvd; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:02:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.techvalley.ca (S010600121701f0ec.vs.shawcable.net [24.85.106.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.techvalley.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D082304C9; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monsoon.techvalley.ca ([192.168.1.1]) by mail.techvalley.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6J57RbI013525; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:07:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@techvalley.ca) Message-Id: <7.0.1.0.0.20070718220030.01b8de00@techvalley.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.1.0 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:02:53 -0700 To: Christopher Cowart , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Tech Valley Internet - Tony Kivits 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: /dev/random in jails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:02:49 -0000 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