> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:58 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Windows Path Not Found for urandom
>
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> Jeff,
>
> On 8/29/12 4:04 PM, Jeffrey Janner wrote:
> > This was on a test of what would happen if the C:\dev\urandom did
> > exist on a Windows system, for some strange reason. It didn't seem to
> > do anything operationally by being there and empty.
>
> Right: if the file doesn't work out, Tomcat falls-back to
> java.security.SecureRandom (or whatever you have configured for
> randomClass in your <Manager>).
>
> > But it did find the source of the initial 6 PNFs being reported by
> the
> > Process Monitor tool.
>
> Did you mean FileNotFoundExceptions? I'm not sure what a PNF is.
>
[Jeff Janner] PNF == Path Not Found. Using Sysinternals Process Monitor, it
logs these to the screen, but Tomcat never logs it, since it recovers and uses
SecureRandom instead.
BTW: if you deploy on Windows, I highly recommend running this against your
app, it can be an eye-opener. You have to add 2 filter settings, one to show
Tomcat only messages, and another to ignore SUCCESS messages.
> > Why 6? Beats me, I haven't studied the code.
>
> How many webapps do you have deployed? You'll get a separate Manager
> instance for each deployed webapp (and therefore an error for each
> one).
>
> > My big question now is what's in my company's code that generates the
> > PNF during login verification/error reporting. Leaning toward
> > something to do with generating a new sessionid, but I've not had the
> > chance to look (or get a programmer to check it).
>
> If your random source "runs out" of data -- which is what happens when
> the file is there but has zero bytes, you'll get a single error per
> deployed webapp and then the manager(s) will switch-over to
> java.secure.SecureRandom.
>
> - -chris
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