Re: [CentOS] ssh issues with centos 6

2016-03-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/29/2016 02:07 PM, Warren Young wrote: so i enacted rngd -r /dev/urandom -o /dev/random That’s essentially bogus. If /dev/random is blocking due to insufficient entropy, feeding false entropy in from urandom buys you nothing, other than to fool /dev/random into thinking it has more

Re: [CentOS] ssh issues with centos 6

2016-02-29 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 28, 2016, at 3:19 PM, William Warren wrote: > > I have a new centos 6 install. …on what? A 64 MiB bargain basement VPS, an enterprise grade 32 GiB server, a reflashed network switch…? > I have disabled motd in ssh Why is that relevant? That message likely

[CentOS] ssh issues with centos 6

2016-02-28 Thread William Warren
I have a new centos 6 install. Randomly i get out of memory messages and my ssh file transfer dies. I have tried this in filezilla as well as winscp. I have disabled motd in ssh and i also had entropy problems so i enacted rngd -r /dev/urandom -o /dev/random but did not stop the out of memory