workaround for dealing with /dev/random /dev/urandom in a libvirt environment that...

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2013-April/msg00163.html

diff --git a/plc.d/gpg b/plc.d/gpg
index 39f6add..9576c40 100755 (executable)
--- a/plc.d/gpg
+++ b/plc.d/gpg
@@ -39,10 +39,19 @@ case "$1" in
 
            # Temporarily replace /dev/random with /dev/urandom to
            # avoid running out of entropy.
-           rm -f /dev/random
-           # 1 9 is /dev/urandom
-           mknod /dev/random c 1 9
-           # sometimes mknod fails within an improperly setup vserver
+           # (1 9 is /dev/urandom, 1 8 is /dev/random)
+           #
+           # a former version of this was rm'ing /dev/random and re-creating it afterwards
+           # however in 1.0.4 libvirt won't allow the use of mknod at all, so let's work around that
+           # by moving things around instead
+           #
+           # if we find this file it's probably that a previous run has failed..
+           [ -f /dev/random.preserve ] && { echo "Unexpected file /dev/random.preserve - exiting" ; exit 1; }
+           mv -f /dev/random /dev/random.preserve
+           # doesn't hurt to check 
+           check
+           ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random
+           # again 
            check
            gpg --homedir=$homedir --no-permission-warning --batch --no-tty --yes \
                --gen-key <<EOF
@@ -59,8 +68,8 @@ Expire-Date: 0
 %commit
 EOF
            check
-           rm -f /dev/random
-           mknod /dev/random c 1 8
+           mv -f /dev/random.preserve /dev/random
+           check
        else
            # Update GPG UID
            MESSAGE=$"Updating GPG keys"