delayed response from pop3d

[Jon Rowell]

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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