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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Well it figures that I
recomplied cyrus imap only and NOT sasl. I will recompile that and put in
the allowapop statement. Report to follow...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Thanks</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bob</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Sebastian Hagedorn
[mailto:Hagedorn@uni-koeln.de]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sat 12/2/2006 12:20
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Robert T. Covell<BR><B>Cc:</B>
info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: 2.6 Kernel and POP
issues<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>-- "Robert T. Covell" <rcovell@rolet.com> is rumored to
have mumbled on 1.<BR>Dezember 2006 18:50:11 -0600 regarding RE: 2.6 Kernel and
POP issues:<BR><BR>> I have recompiled my cyrus implementation
(--with-devrandom=/dev/urandom)<BR>> and my kernel with no
luck.<BR>><BR>> I reboot from the newest 2.4 kernel and my pop clients
hang. When<BR>> checking the 2.6 kernel I looked at
/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail<BR>> and saw that it very low (like
5-30, not sure on specifics).<BR>><BR>> Is there something I am not doing
right with either the kernel or cyrus?<BR><BR>Well, recompiling SASL *should've*
taken care of that, but you could also<BR>try disabling APOP in
/etc/imapd.conf:<BR><BR>allowapop: 0<BR><BR>Restart Cyrus after you make the
change. If that helps it means that, for<BR>whatever reason, Cyrus still uses
/dev/random instead of /dev/urandom ...<BR>if it doesn't help, something else
must be wrong. I have no idea what that<BR>might be.<BR>--<BR>Sebastian Hagedorn
- RZKR-R1 (Flachbau), Zi. 18, Robert-Koch-Str. 10<BR>Zentrum für angewandte
Informatik - Universitätsweiter Service RRZK<BR>Universität zu Köln / Cologne
University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587</FONT> </P></DIV>
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