Re: Weird pop3d hang problem (fd blocked?!)

[Stewart]

Thanks for your reply Patrick (all 8 of them :) but i was hoping 
there'd be a fix that didn't involve compiling.. this is a production 
server installed from a debian pkg so compilation isn't really an 
option at this stage..

cheers,

..S.

On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 02:43  AM, Patrick Welche wrote:

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:41:59PM +1000, Stewart wrote:
On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 01:33  AM, Ken Murchison wrote:



foobar wrote:
No, I didn't check if I was out of entropy (random).
This is most likely your problem, since the pop3d banner includes a
random challenge for APOP.
that sounds very much like what has started happening to me this
afternoon. i'm sorry i don't know how to reset my entropy :-) can
someone post the fix? (cyrus 2.1 debian ppc)
cf. the configure option:
  --with-devrandom=PATH   set the path to /dev/random /dev/random
so you could

  --with-devrandom=/dev/urandom

as it just gives out pseudo-random numbers once the entropy runs out 
rather
than block.

Cheers,

Patrick