Weird pop3d hang problem (fd blocked?!)

[Stewart]

Thanks for your reply Patrick (all 8 of them :) but i was hoping 
there'd be a fix that didn't involve compiling.. this is a production 
server installed from a debian pkg so compilation isn't really an 
option at this stage..

cheers,

..S.

On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 02:43  AM, Patrick Welche wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:41:59PM +1000, Stewart wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 01:33  AM, Ken Murchison wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> foobar wrote:
>>>>
>>>> No, I didn't check if I was out of entropy (random).
>>>
>>> This is most likely your problem, since the pop3d banner includes a
>>> random challenge for APOP.
>>
>> that sounds very much like what has started happening to me this
>> afternoon. i'm sorry i don't know how to reset my entropy :-) can
>> someone post the fix? (cyrus 2.1 debian ppc)
>
> cf. the configure option:
>   --with-devrandom=PATH   set the path to /dev/random /dev/random
>
> so you could
>
>   --with-devrandom=/dev/urandom
>
> as it just gives out pseudo-random numbers once the entropy runs out 
> rather
> than block.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>