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

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