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Getting a /dev/random on Solaris 8

You need patch 112438 (as of April 2006, this is rev -03). Install, reboot, and it should be there.

This is required for things like CSW (BlastWave) OpenSSH, which will otherwise die with the message

PRNGD not seeded
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