delayed response from pop3d

[Rob Siemborski]

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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