RE: ChecksumDatabase more details wanted, /dev/random draining

[Eric Sorenson]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Mark McCullough wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:24 -0700, Eric Sorenson wrote:
> 
> > You can use PRNG or EGD as a randomness source, so you don't block on 
>
> In Solaris 8, see patch#111659 for a kernel /dev/random and /dev/urandom
> 
> For Solaris 9, I believe it was preinstalled, my Solaris 9 box has it
> installed, so I know it is around.
> 
> Older versions of Solaris can look at ANDIrand, a similar package.

Thanks for the clarification, I actually haven't admined much solaris 
since the days when 7 was the new hotness. 

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