What I meant is that there are no error messages related to random in my current syslog. Unfortunately the service was started up normally (and was logged in a rotated log file). Thanks for catching the typo in my command. It should be: # cat entropy_avail # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/random count=512 # cat entropy_avail 0 512+0 records in 512+0 records out 0 I am not trying to initialize /dev/random; I'm trying to create some entropy (even if it's of poor quality). According to Kent, you do this by writing to /dev/random. But this test still doesn't produce any entropy. --- Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir 2770 Cowper St. vladimir@xxxxxxx Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> "ckj" == Christopher K Johnson <ckjohnson@xxxxxxx> writes: ckj> ckj> Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: >> The text "random" doesn't apprear in either /var/log/messages or >> dmesg. >> >> >> ckj> That is interesting. There is a service named random to save/restore ckj> the entropy pool and it produces a message at each startup and shutdown. ckj> It is provided by the initscripts rpm. ckj> May 13 05:56:58 chris random: Initializing random number generator: ckj> succeeded ckj> May 13 20:01:35 chris random: Saving random seed: succeeded ckj> ckj> chkconfig --list random ckj> random 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off ckj> ckj> And it initializes things differently. ckj> ckj> There is a problem with how you initialized /dev/urandom, in that it is ckj> used as input, not output in your dd statement: ckj> ckj> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/random-seed count=512 ckj> ckj> Understandably this does not create any random data. You cannot simply ckj> reverse it because there is no /dev/random-seed to take data from (at ckj> least not on my system). ckj> ckj> Try ckj> service random start ckj> ckj> -- ckj> ----------------------------------------------------------- ckj> "Spend less! Do more! Go Open Source..." -- Dirigo.net ckj> Chris Johnson, RHCE #807000448202021 ckj> ckj> ckj> ckj> -- ckj> fedora-list mailing list ckj> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx ckj> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ckj>
