On Wednesday 01 October 2003 17:45, Eli Billauer wrote: > Could you please be more detailed about what you need this for? Is it > the internal TCP-sequence number generator, or do you have some > application that is hungry for a lot of random data?
Some internal software wants random data. > How random does it really have to be? not terribly. I moved to /dev/urandom, but would really like to know why /dev/ random is empty and why doesn't it replenishes fast enough, or maybe at all - I turned off all userland randomacity consumers, and I still the pool is empty. on my workstation (which has user input to get random data from), the pool replenishes within seconds. -- Oded ::.. Customer: A primitive life form at the bottom of the food chain. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
