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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need to generate a file with random data. /dev/[u]random doesn't exist. Post 302845943 by Devyn on Thursday 22nd of August 2013 04:17:21 PM
Old 08-22-2013
Thanks very much all for the replies. Really appreciate it. The place to run this for me would be even in basic shells like the Linux, Solaris, AIX etc 'maintenance' / 'recovery' shells.

So things like Perl or openssl won't work as required libraries won't be loaded in those simple recovery shells.

Corona688:
That's a good option there but unfortunately it didn't work fully or I should say it DID work partially. The loop continued to run even though the dd command ended / stopped.

Cheers,
DH
Last edited by Devyn; 08-22-2013 at 05:49 PM..
 

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NAME

       ovdb_recover - Perform recovery on the ovdb database, if needed

SYNOPSYS

       ovdb_recover [-f]

DESCRIPTION

       Attempts to open the ovdb database, and if the database needs recovery, it attempts to perform the recovery.  Similar in function to the
       BerkeleyDB db_recover command.

       Specify the `-f' option to force a recovery, even if the database appears to not need it.  It is not an error to perform a recovery opera-
       tion on a clean database.  However, do not run `ovdb_recover -f' while the database is in use by any other processes.

       Returns exit status of 0 if the database did not need recovery or if recovery succeeded, and returns exit status 1 if recovery failed.  In
       the latter case, the database may be damaged beyond repair, requiring a rebuild with makehistory(8).

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HISTORY

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SEE ALSO

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