Michael Banck wrote:
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:40:16AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:Michael Banck wrote:On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 07:49:55PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:Setting up random-egd (0.5-0+hurd.1) showtrans: /dev/random: No such file or directory showtrans: /dev/urandom: No such file or directory ...Hrm, the above is just a test whether the translator is already set, it the error messages should better be surpressed. Anyway, despite those error messages, /dev/{u,}random should have been setup correctly, did you try?Try what?To use /dev/random, after you've installed random-egd. Probably difficult to try again now when you have copied over some file to it.
I saw that there was no /dev/random after i'd installed random-egd, so i thought that trying to access anything by that name was non-sensical.