Am Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2005 17:50 CEST schrieb Harald Schmalzbauer: > Hello, > > I have one box where PRNG kickstart doesn't work. > Whne I set 'sysctl kern.random.sys.seeded=0' and > 'cat /boot/kernel/kernel.gz > /dev/random' .random.sys.seeded is still > 0. On any other box it's enough to send one byte and .sys.seeded returns > to 1 > > I found that when installing a new server and trying to usually start > sshd. (ssh-keygen quits immediately with the error: PRNG is not seeded) > > I'm not very familar with random or entropy stuff so please tell me what > to do. > Nothing uncommon so far with that box (besides it starts from > CompactFlash with memorydisk for /var / and /tmp):
Sorry, forgot to mention it's RELENG_6 from today... > kern.random.yarrow.gengateinterval: 10 > kern.random.yarrow.bins: 10 > kern.random.yarrow.fastthresh: 192 > kern.random.yarrow.slowthresh: 256 > kern.random.yarrow.slowoverthresh: 2 > kern.random.sys.seeded: 0 > kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet: 1 > kern.random.sys.harvest.point_to_point: 1 > kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt: 1 > kern.random.sys.harvest.swi: 0 > interrupt total rate > irq0: clk 1038776 998 > irq1: atkbd0 2 0 > irq3: sio1 2610 2 > irq5: em0 133 0 > irq7: ppc0 1 0 > irq8: rtc 132946 127 > irq10: fxp0 72 0 > irq12: fwohci0++ 1 0 > irq13: npx0 2 0 > irq14: ata0 3110 2 > irq15: ata1 202 0 > > Thanks in advance, > > -Harry
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