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Re: /dev/urandom empty?

From: Michael Shalayeff (mickeylucifier.net)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2005 - 08:29:10 CST


Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from J.D. Bronson:
> Using 3.6...and postfix, I have been seeing this:
>
> postfix/tlsmgr[30968]: cannot read from entropy device /dev/urandom:
> Operation timed out -- exiting to reopen
>
> is there anything I can do to add more entropy??

urandom always reads and never blocks.
fix your buggy software

cu

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