Seeding the pseudo random number generator

[Einar Karttunen]

Hello

Is there a way to automatically seed the pseudo random number generator?
Using random:uniform I get allways the same sequence of numbers. I could
allways seed the generator when my module is called but that does not 
seem a good idea... And what is the preferred way of seeding the 
generator? Using erlang:now seems the easiest approach, but the
generated numbers are not random by any means.

seed() ->
	{A,B,C} = erlang:now(),
	random:seed(A,B,C).
	
Using /dev/urandom seems possible, but I would like to avoid it if
possible...

- Einar Karttunen