Victor Duchovni: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:34:39AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > What other /dev/*random devices do you have? As long as you use a > > device that does not block, Postfix will be fine. > > With 10.5 there's just: > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 0 Dec 29 11:37 /dev/random > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 1 Oct 30 01:09 /dev/urandom > > with the former a blocking device presumably... I'll check out 10.6 > later today or tomorrow.
Postfix sets a time limit of 10s on "random device" reads. If /dev/random is less buggy then that could be a workaround. Wietse