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
>
>
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