On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 14:05, Evan McNabb wrote: > All the sudden at 10am today our webserver (RH9, Apache2) stopped > working. Well, normal connections were working but all SSL connections > where dieing. Nothing obvious had changed on the server that would have > caused it.
Did your kernel get upgraded? Or some piece of entropy-generating hardware die (like a network card, cpu fan, etc)? Dunno > > After having 5 - 6 of us looked into the problem for four hours, we > realized that /dev/random had stopped working. 'cat /dev/random' doesn't > output anything. Also interesting is that > /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail is always zero. Fortunately > /dev/urandom still works, so we're using that for now. > > Has anyone seen this before? Can we borrow some entropy from someone? > :-) > > -Evan -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
