Re: update-alternatives and /dev/random

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 09:36:23 +0530, harish badrinath wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
> > That's because something went wrong on the upgrade from the random-egd
> > to the random-hurd switch. Check with showtrans what /dev/{u,}random
> > and /dev/{u,}random-hurd are set to.

> root@debian:/usr/local/src# showtrans /dev/urandom
> /hurd/symlink /etc/alternatives/urandom
> root@debian:/usr/local/src# showtrans /etc/alternatives/urandom
> /hurd/symlink /dev/urandom-hurd
> root@debian:/usr/local/src# showtrans /dev/urandom-hurd
> /hurd/random --seed-file /var/spool/random-seed --fast

Hmm, ok this seems fine. And you have the random translators running
right?

regards,
guillem