delayed response from pop3d

[Rob Siemborski]

Change the value of DEV_RANDOM in SASL's config.h

-Rob

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Jon Rowell wrote:

> Linking /dev/random to /dev/urandom fixed the problem but it made my
> machine fail when it booted because of a device checking mechanism in
> the boot process.
>
> Is there a way I can force cyrus to use /dev/urandom instead of
> /dev/random?
>
> Jon Rowell
>
> On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 12:40 PM, Rob Siemborski wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Jon Rowell wrote:
> >
> >> Since the upgrade, I am getting a delayed response from my pop3d.  I
> >> have pop3 running on port 10110 and imap running on 10443 (as stated
> >> in
> >> cyrus.conf).  If I startup master and then do "telnet localhost 10110"
> >> I get the usual telnet stuff about "connected to localhost" and
> >> "Escape
> >> character" but instead of getting the usual "+OK hostname Cyrus POP3
> >> v2.1.12 server ready ..." stuff it just sits there.  The greeting
> >> message does come up but it takes 5 minutes.  After the greeting comes
> >> up, the server works fine.
> >>
> >> Imap appears to work fine.  There is a split second delay that I don't
> >> remember being there but otherwise it is fine.
> >
> > Run the strace/truss equivilant on the processes and see whats taking
> > them
> > so long.
> >
> > Offhand, it sounds like a /dev/random problem (not enough entropy), in
> > which case the solution is to link /dev/urandom to /dev/random.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
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> > Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456
> > Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
> >
> >
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Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456
Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper