On 11/23/05, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/22/05, Joshua Slive <jslive@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > mod_auth_digest is asking your system for some random bytes to use for > > digest auth. Your system is not providing them. > > Why is server startup blocked by that? > Can't server startup continue and all auth requests fail until there > are random bytes? I'd guess it would be much harder to impliment (would require dispatching a thread/process to wait on the random number generator) and wouldn't be what all admins would want anyway. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx