On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:59:46PM +0200, Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
: however bizarre that may sound. It seems that the recent Linux kernel
: update wasn't up to Tomcat's liking. For whatever the reason, Tomcat's
: initialising of the TLS connector blocks in a read from /dev/random,
: always. Ensuring that it reads from /dev/urandom instead makes it happy
: again.
You may want to check what the kernel's using as a source of randomness.
I forget the details, but IIRC /dev/urandom never blocks, whereas
/dev/random may block under {some condition I can't recall in detail}.
-QM
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