The attached patch should apply cleanly to the Debian urandom. My apologies for attaching the wrong patch previously. I picked up the Ubuntu patch instead of the Debian patch.
>From 65227bb7a4a335f7ef1332b2b19aada059502238 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Denker <j...@av8n.com> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:17:32 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Remove code that tried to write to the read-only file /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize This code was added in 2004 and has never worked. --- urandom | 7 ------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/urandom b/urandom index 1662859..f5b4bcb 100755 --- a/urandom +++ b/urandom @@ -27,13 +27,6 @@ case "$1" in # which is the size of the entropy pool if [ -f "$SAVEDFILE" ] then - # Handle locally increased pool size - SAVEDSIZE="$(find "$SAVEDFILE" -printf "%s")" - if [ "$SAVEDSIZE" -gt "$POOLSIZE" ] - then - [ -w /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize ] && echo $POOLSIZE > /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize - POOLSIZE=$SAVEDSIZE - fi cat "$SAVEDFILE" >/dev/urandom fi rm -f $SAVEDFILE -- 1.5.6.5
