Filip Van Raemdonck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 05:04:26PM +1000, matthew green wrote: > > actually, i hadn't, but there wasn't very much there besides the > > fact that people found it was xdm reading /dev/mem and a small > > patch for debian to enable /dev/random (i'd suggest /dev/urandom). > > If any of these it should be /dev/random. /dev/urandom would stall most of > the time on headless systems, which is the only place where I (and very > likely a lot of other people too) run xdm in the first place.
You're mistaken here: /dev/random blocks, /dev/urandom doesn't. Julian.
