"Xris Brunton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > I have just installed shishi on my Ubuntu server and every time I type any > command in shisa other than 'shisa -V' or 'shisa -h' it just seems to hang > and gives no response (verbose has been of no use either). It did this with > the official Ubuntu packages and then also when they were removed and > 0.34compiled and installed. The shishi daemon is definitely runinng > and I have > been through all the instructions to no avail. Is this a bug or am I just > doing something stupid.
Hi! Thanks for your interest. I've seen that too, and the reason has been that a read from /dev/random or /dev/urandom blocks. Use 'strace shishi' to find out if this is indeed the case. It may also be blocking DNS requests, to find out the Kerberos server for a poorly guessed domain. Try 'shishi -v' to get some more information on what Shishi is doing. However, this should time out relatively fast, whereas blocking /dev/*random may block for a long time. It has been suggested that applications should use a libgcrypt random seeds file. The Shishi command line tools could implement that, but I'm less sure how it would work for a library. More investigation is needed here... /Simon _______________________________________________ Help-shishi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-shishi
