FreeBSD 5.4 chroot

Mihai Donțu mihai.dontu at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 09:04:09 UTC 2008


On Monday 25 August 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Mihai Donțu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just installed a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and I need a FreeBSD
> > 5.4-RELEASE chroot to build something in it (hw shortage). All nice and
> > dandy, until I hit a /dev problem:
> >
> > # svn up
> > svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/project'
> > svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/project': SSL negotiation failed: SSL disabled due
> > to lack of entropy (https://svn.host.com)
> >
> > # ls -l /dev/random
> > crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  249,   0 Aug 25 16:19 /dev/random
> >
> > # cat /dev/random
> > cat: /dev/random: Socket operation on non-socket
> >
> > # rm /dev/random
> >
> > # mknod /dev/mknod random c 0 10 root:wheel
> >
> > # chmod 0666 /dev/random
> >
> > # ls -l /dev/random
> > crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  10 Aug 25 18:28 /dev/random
> >
> > # cat /dev/random
> > cat: /dev/random: Socket operation on non-socket
> >
> > Clearly, all those years of Linux chroot-ing have affected my brain, but
> > Google isn't very helpful either. :) Could someone, please, hint me about
> > what I'm doing wrong?
>
> mount a devfs instance to create the devices (see mount_devfs) instead
> of trying to mknod them by hand.

Works like magic. :) Thanks!

-- 
Mihai Donțu


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