Subject: /dev/random, gpg and NetBSD 1.5
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: M J Dowden <mjdowden@panix.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/13/2000 18:11:27
How do you configure /dev/random to work with NetBSD/VAX 1.5? Is
it a kernel config issue or is there a sysctl entry (that's not in
the man page)? gpg won't generate a key and gives the error message:
gpg: fatal: can't open /dev/random: Device not configured
From the documentation, it sounds like it should just work right
out of the box and configuring /dev/random isn't specifically
mentioned. The GNUPG web site offers a random number generator (egd
0.8) for other OS's, but the *BSD's are listed as not needing it. I
installed it, but gpg ignores it and still tries to use /dev/random.
Apropos doesn't turn up anything about configuring /dev/random.
I'm wondering if its a VAX-port issue because it seems to work on i386.
Best regards,
Mike Dowden