chroot_server_problem!

Oliver Niesner digi_news at gmx.de
Wed Aug 3 10:35:49 UTC 2005


Marco Gruss wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> Oliver Niesner wrote:
> 
>> But when i try to start tor with the command:
>> chroot -u _tor -g _tor /home/chrooted/tor /bin/tor -f /etc/tor/torrc
>>
>> the - the following output is shown in the notice.log:
>> Aug 03 01:49:45.354 [warn] crypto_seed_rng(): Cannot seed RNG -- no 
>> entropy source found.
> 
> I suspect you might be missing /dev/random and/or /dev/urandom. You can
> create those by running
> mknod /home/chrooted/tor/dev/random c 1 8
> mknod /home/chrooted/tor/dev/urandom c 1 9
> 
> Marco

Thank you for the quick answer but i think that is not the problem!

In that howto these devices are created and when i tried your suggestion 
i´ve got:
/home/chrooted/tor/dev/random: File exists
/home/chrooted/tor/dev/urandom: File exists

I really don´t know what happened :-/

Olli



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