From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 14:23:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-56.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E20937B400 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:23:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 37C4566C49; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:23:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:23:20 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Martin McCormick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/random Message-ID: <20020606142319.D25918@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200206062039.g56Kd6w27801@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6WlEvdN9Dv0WHSBl" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200206062039.g56Kd6w27801@dc.cis.okstate.edu>; from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 03:39:06PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --6WlEvdN9Dv0WHSBl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 03:39:06PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > As I said, this system was recently upgraded to > FreeBSD4.5 and the upgrade was done on the system when it was in > multi-user mode. I guess all the standard devices did not get > made at that time. Well, it depends on how you "upgraded" it. I would claim that if you forgot to run MAKEDEV you haven't actually upgraded the system completely :-) > Is there any kind of script that one can run > to make sure there are not any other nasty omitions? The official upgrade procedure is documented in the handbook, and includes running the mergemaster tool, which will update /etc and /dev/MAKEDEV, and take care of regenerating generated files as needed. > I recently upgraded 3 more systems to 4.5 and it > definitely pays to go to single-user mode as the documentation > says. Single-user has no bearing on the problem, although it's still a good idea for other reasons. Kris --6WlEvdN9Dv0WHSBl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8/9LHWry0BWjoQKURAqoJAJ9tMDM2k0jYjehl9ATY6cw8bkPyFwCg0qTr Tg/tkj5+gMrau5fCwCTHawo= =4Tml -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6WlEvdN9Dv0WHSBl-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message