On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:25:55PM -0400, David Shaw wrote: > On Jul 10, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Afzal, Naeem M wrote: > > > > > Ok, I was able to resolve this issue. I have to set HOME=/root > > inside the shell to get it going. Now I have new problem, script > > runs ok from within this chroot fs, but when keys generation process > > just hangs with statement: > > > > "Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work.... > > (Need 284 more bytes)" > > > > > > How can I force it to complete it? > > Your entropy source dried up. Normally I'd suggest wiggling the mouse > or poking at the keyboard to make some more entropy, but if you're > running completely unattended that may be hard (you may not even have > a mouse on that box).
I usually do something like "find / -print0 | xargs -0 cksum", but that, of course, assumes that the kernel will gather entropy from the disk. > There is a good article on entropy gathering on Linux (I'm assuming > you are running Linux here) at http://lwn.net/Articles/283103/ Aye, this is a good article indeed, worth reading by both sysadmins and everyone else who is interested in randomness :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 When you are not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish.
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