On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 06:46, Ramesh .T.S wrote: > Hi, > we r using compaq proliant servers(DL 360) loaded with redhat 7.1 > (2.4.9-12smp kernel). the problem is that we are unable to use certain > progams which use /dev/random file eg. sslrandomfile directive in few > java programs which gets stuck in seeding . Pls let us know if there is > a way for us to generate a random no. in compaq machines. > I assume that this is a scsi only drive setup? If so this is a problem that I ran into a while back. scsi drives do not contribute to the entropy pool and on headless machines there is no way to generate it. I ended up going to the server and typing and moving the mouse around enough to generate the needed entropy. On IDE boxes you can generate some disk activity. find / -type f or du -sh * just about anything. If you need a constant source of random numbers you need to look into a random source . google for entropy and linux. You will get a lot of links about this and a few ways that can generate some numbers that may lose a little bit of randomness in exchange for lots of data. Cryptographers take their randomness very seriously indeed. HTH Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
