From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 2:15:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86EDA37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 02:15:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-4-cust210.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.10.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE54E43E8A for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 02:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 17yqSJ-0000mJ-00; Tue, 08 Oct 2002 10:15:07 +0100 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:15:07 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool Message-ID: <20021008091507.GB2798@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Peter Leftwich , FreeBSD LIST References: <200210062207.g96M7NgO056867@lurza.secnetix.de> <20021008002612.C35848-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021008002612.C35848-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:30:27AM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Peter Leftwich wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > > > > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Mikko Ty?l?j?rvi wrote: > > > > > tr -cd a-zA-Z0-9 < /dev/urandom | dd bs=$len count=1 2>/dev/null > > > It didn't work. My shell is tcsh so I tried: > > > tr -cd a-zA-Z0-9 < /dev/urandom | dd bs=8 count=1 >& /dev/null > > > And all I got was the next prompt. > > > Yep, csh and tcsh suck pretty much. Not being able to separately > > redirect stderr easily is one of the reasons. > > Bizarre. From now on I'll have to insert `bash ; ` before commands :) Umm, that won't work, but I really can't tell if you're joking or not. Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message