On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:41:59PM +1000, Stewart wrote: > > On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 01:33 AM, Ken Murchison wrote: > > > > > > >foobar wrote: > >> > >>No, I didn't check if I was out of entropy (random). > > > >This is most likely your problem, since the pop3d banner includes a > >random challenge for APOP. > > that sounds very much like what has started happening to me this > afternoon. i'm sorry i don't know how to reset my entropy :-) can > someone post the fix? (cyrus 2.1 debian ppc)
cf. the configure option: --with-devrandom=PATH set the path to /dev/random /dev/random so you could --with-devrandom=/dev/urandom as it just gives out pseudo-random numbers once the entropy runs out rather than block. Cheers, Patrick
