Alex Schuster <wonko@(protected):

> Dale writes:
>
>> Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>
>> > Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system.
>> >
>> I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the
>> boot runlevel?
>
> Looking at the init script it seems like if the character
> device /dev/urandom does not exist, it exits directly.
>
> Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it could
> fail?

Some kernel option?

grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_AMD=y
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_GEODE=y
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA=y

Roger
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