Hi,
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:43:38PM +0100, Philip Craig wrote:
> I did change the * in listen to my IP address. No behaviour changed.
>
> Actually I have now tried running rageircd without the /etc/init.d
> script, via:
>
> sudo -u Debian-rageircd rageircd -c /etc/rageircd/rageircd.conf
>
> Now, I see the following on stdout:
>
> No random state, generating entropy from /dev/random. I see this
> repeatedly if I ctrl-c that process.
>
> If I repeatedly perform in another shell:
>
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
>
> while rageircd is still running, it always comes back with very small
> numbers, e.g. 24 or 35.
Ah, thanks for finding that out. So your rageircd stalls so early that
it has not yet bound to the IP address, and is not yet properly
processing the signal that is sent to it when you request it to stop.
> So, my guess is that rageircd can't get past this startup phase due to a
> lack of entropy in the random number generator.
Completely right.
>The thing is, I don't
> wish to use secure connections anyway. I have tried changing
> rageircd.conf to include:
>
> listen * {
> port 7667;
>
> port 7667 {
> secure no;
> };
> };
>
> to try to turn off security, but so far this has had no effect. (yes I
> intended 7667 here, as I'm running dancer-ircd on 6667 for my users
> until I can get rageircd working)
I'd try commenting all TLS related options.
> It would also be interesting to know what else on my system is eating
> all the randomness, but I don't know how to tell that.
Cannot help you with that, but some network, disk, mouse and/or
keyboard drivers fill the entropy pool, so it might help to copy big
files inside the file system.
Maybe your hardware has a hardware random number generator, which can
be utilized by installing the rng-tools package.
Can I close the rageircd bug?
Greetings
Marc
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