Bug 50

Summary:	Couldn't open random pool "yes": No such file or directory
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Patrick King <king>
Component:	Build system	Assignee:	OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P2
Version:	-current
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Patrick King 2001-12-19 03:37:40 AEDT

I am receiving the error :

Couldn't open random pool "yes": No such file or directory

when doing a "make install". Here are my configuration options :

./configure --with-random=/dev/random --prefix=/usr/local/ss
h_new --disable-suid-ssh --with-random --with-tcp-wrappers --x-includes=/usr/ope
nwin/include --x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib --with-xauth=/usr/openwin/bin/xauth"


Note : /dev/random exists because I am using ANDIrand from 
http://www.solarisresources.com/search_engine/devrandom.html. Here is the 
random file :

crw-r--r--   1 root     sys      133,  0 Dec 17 11:05 /dev/random

Comment 1 Kevin Steves 2001-12-20 08:08:55 AEDT

if you remove the duplicate --with-random does it work?  configure
should be more robust here.

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2002-01-14 19:03:15 AEDT

Fixed in -current. The --with-random and --with-prngd-socket now check that
their argument is an absolute path. They will also warn (but not fail) if the
path specified in the argument is not readable.

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2004-04-14 12:24:17 AEST

Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED