Re: password-db failure?

On 2004-03-05 18:59+0100, Tobias Ringström wrote:
> Ben Wilhelm wrote:
>
> >Anybody have a clue how to fix this? Should I just, like, cat the kernel
> >source into /dev/random and hope that fixes it? ;) Or is there a better
> >way?
>
> The kernel has two devices, /dev/random which provide better randomness
> and blocks, and /dev/urandom which can provide less random data but does
> not block. I think it's possible to configure APR to use /dev/urandom
> instead of /dev/random.

apr/configure --with-devrandom=/dev/urandom or

There is is also hw_random device driver for some mb in Linux kernel (and
probably in *BSD).

 CONFIG_HW_RANDOM:
    This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random
    Number Generator hardware found on Intel i8xx-based
    motherboards, AMD 76x-based motherboards, and Via Nehemiah CPUs.

I just hit in that by myself.
http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2004-03/0143.shtml

BR, Jani

-- 
Jani Averbach
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