Cyrus "hanging" when connecting to POP3 port several times

[Rudy Gevaert]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
>> My Cyrus is hanging when I try to connect to the POP3 or POP3S port 
>> several times, i.e. when connecting like this three-four-five times in a 
>> row:
> 
>> $ telnet 127.0.0.1 110
>> Trying 127.0.0.1...
>> Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
>> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> Stracing it leads me to an empty /dev/random.
> 
> After looking at man pages, I see there is no option to specify an 
> alternative random file location (i.e., /dev/urandom).
> 
> Is recompilation the only way to get around this problem?

You should recompile sasl to use /dev/urandom.

Rudy


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