This one time, at band camp, Dan Treacy wrote: >I had this problem (or thought I did) for an unrelated program (can't >even recall what it was now tbh) but I do remember there was a command >to actually check and see how much entropy your system had.. IIRC it was >just cat /proc something random. hunting around the proc system should >find it. After doing that I found that wasn't actually my problem and it >lay eslewhere.
Dan speaks the truth: cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail and other files in that directory will give you some values to check out. You can create entropy by generating network traffic, mouseclicks and motion, keyboard input, and generally contributing to the heat death of the universe. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
