Re: The saga continues as my computer continues to misbehave!

Vladimir Dergachev (vdergach@sas.upenn.edu)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 21:47:36 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>
> > stupid question - what is /dev/random ? (and why do you need it ? )
> > I never used it..
>
> man 4 random
>

No entry for random in section 4 of the manual.

Note that I am not using a Redhat system. (My installation grew up from
Slackware). But seriously - if this is a node in /dev than it should be
supported by kernel. I don't know of any options in the kernel that would
make it appear.

Vladimir Dergachev

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