Hi Stephen, Stephen Gran wrote:
>>Can anyone please point me where to look next? > > My guess is you're out of entropy. > > cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > > will tell you for sure. Good catch! And i seemed to have forgotten to mention that this 'machine' was running User-Mode-Linux (sorry). Now it all makes sense. > If so, comment out the last line of /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base: > > # rm -f /var/spool/exim4/gnutls-params > > This is imperfect, but will allow you to keep a working params file > (once you've got enough entropy to generate one in the first place, of > course). You may want to consider changing kernels to one that actually > produces some entropy, as that is the long term (and best) fix. The > advice above is a workaround until that is feasible. I noticed a patch[1] that might be of help, otherwise i'll switch to a real machine. [1] http://www.mythic-beasts.com/uml/patches.html Thanks a lot, -- - Pieter -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
