On Jul 15, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Rainer Jung wrote: <snip>
>> And note that due to a bug in the JDK you really need to use >> >> /dev/./urandom >> >> or >> >> /dev//urandom >> >> and not >> >> /dev/urandom. >> >> Oracle themselves already internally use "dev/urandom, but later they >> switch from /dev/urandom to /dev/random if the setting is trsingwise >> identical to /dev/random. That's why you need to use some different >> string that's equivalent to /dev/urandom after path normalization. >> >> We had the same problem for Tomcat, mostly when starting two instances >> in parallel. > > ... and a bit more detail available at: > > http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=130182757504685&w=2 Cool. Thanks for the additional information, Rainer. --kevan
