On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 4:00 PM, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: >> # cd /dev; /dist/dev/MAKEDEV std > > Hi Jim, I didn't get the reason for the "MAKEDEV std" on the > above line. OpenSSH requires the /dev/random or /dev/urandom device nodes, neither of which are in the MFS freebsd root. The makedev command creates those nodes. If you don't create the nodes, you get a "PRNG not seeded" error from ssh. --Jim -- Jim Zajkowski http://www.jimz.net/pgp-pubkey.asc System Administrator 8A9E 1DDF 944D 83C3 AEAB 8F74 8697 A823 2113 5C53 ITCS Contract Services ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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