Is this an ULTRA class sparc? You should expect this behavior on anything less than a sparc20.
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Dave Thiede wrote: > > I have been experiencing problems with remote data collection systems > reporting not enough entropy in RNG. It mostly seems to be self correcting > since a retry of the data transport succeeds. One system however shows > the following everytime an ssh connection is attempted. Interactive > commands do not seem to be affected. I have perused the code but the > entropy gatherer seems to be fairly simple and I see no reason for the > commands to be mostly timing out. There must be some kind of timer in the > ssh code to cause this that I haven't found yet. > > This system is running Solaris 5.7 with a really old version of openSSH as > you can see. There are no X windows on these sysetms nor usually any > keyboard interaction. I have a task to upgrade these systems but from the > release notes, I don't have a very high confidence that an upgrade will > solve this specific problem. > > Can anyone shed some light on this situation or provide some pointers to > better ssh system administration information? I have seen this subject pop > up before and haven't been able to find a satisfactory explaination or > solution to entropy problems. > > Dave > > > SSH Version OpenSSH_2.1.1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0. Compiled with SSL (0x0090581f). > debug: Reading configuration data ~user/.ssh/config > debug: ssh_connect: getuid 100 geteuid 0 anon 0 > debug: Connecting to remote-site [ip-address] port 22. > debug: Command 'ls -alni /var/adm' timed out > debug: Command 'ls -alni /var/mail' exit status was 2 > debug: Command 'ls -alni /proc' timed out > debug: Command 'ls -alni /tmp' timed out > debug: Command 'netstat -an' timed out > debug: Command 'netstat -in' timed out > debug: Command 'netstat -rn' timed out > debug: Command 'netstat -pn' timed out > debug: Command 'netstat -s' timed out > debug: Command 'arp -a -n' timed out > debug: Command 'ifconfig -a' timed out > debug: Command 'ps -al' timed out > debug: Command 'ps -efl' timed out > debug: Command 'w' timed out > debug: Command 'last' timed out > debug: Command 'df' timed out > debug: Command 'vmstat' timed out > debug: Command 'ipcs -a' timed out > debug: Command 'tail -200 /var/log/syslog' timed out > debug: Command 'tail -200 /var/adm/messages' timed out > debug: Seeded RNG with 8 bytes from programs > debug: Seeded RNG with 3 bytes from system calls > Not enough entropy in RNG > debug: Calling cleanup 0x4b530(0x0) > debug: writing PRNG seed to file ~user/.ssh/prng_seed > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Rory Savage, Senior Systems Administrator Nando Media: www.nandomedia.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 919-836-5987 (Office) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
