Re: Random seed and possible blocking of /dev/random

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Claus Assmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ca+ssl-dev> Please don't use /etc, it's for configuration files, not for files
ca+ssl-dev> which are changing all the time. That should be /var.  *BSD and
ca+ssl-dev> Solaris seem to have /var/run (at least my boxes do), so that might
ca+ssl-dev> be a good candidate.

May I suggest you do the following on that Solaris box of yours?

    ls -ld /etc/.[a-z]*

Especially file names ending with _door are interesting...  :-)

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