Weird pop3d hang problem (fd blocked?!)

John Alton Tamplin jtampli at sph.emory.edu
Thu Jun 5 16:09:07 EDT 2003


Rob Siemborski wrote:

>You can symlink /dev/random to point at /dev/urandom, but keep in mind
>that will affect all applications, not just cyrus.
>  
>
And in particular you may not want to do this if you are generating RSA 
private keys or equivalent on a machine that anyone else may have shell 
access to.

I would think that whoever packaged it chose poorly.

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John A. Tamplin                               Unix System Administrator
Emory University, School of Public Health     +1 404/727-9931






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