Hi
finally I did this:
rm /dev/random; ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random
... and Tomcat starts up fine.
Since I do not require "good" random numbers (no SSL used), this seems to be
okay.
Regards,
Stefan
Am Montag, 2. April 2007 21:09 schrieb Stefan Armbruster:
> Hi,
>
> the machine is diskless, so entropy for /dev/random might not be enough.
> "cat /dev/random > dummy" results in a empty dummy file even if it runs for
> several minutes. "cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail" returns 23.
> Anyway, I do not need SSL stuff here. Is there a way to compile libtcnative
> without SSL?
> Or is it possible to force usage of /dev/urandom in favour of /dev/random.
> According to /usr/share/doc/libssl0.9.8/changelog.Debian.gz /dev/urandom is
> used by default, but:
>
> $ lsof | grep random
> java 3599 tomcat 5r CHR 1,8 2335 /dev/random
> java 3599 tomcat 6r CHR 1,9 2337 /dev/urandom
> java 3599 tomcat 27r CHR 1,8 2335 /dev/random
>
> So, /dev/random seems to be used.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
> Am Montag, 2. April 2007 07:15 schrieb Mladen Turk:
> > Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote:
> > > it's blocking on initialization of SSL, did you set the correct
> > > <Connector> attributes for APR/SSL (they are not the same as the java
> > > connector)
> >
> > Like Rainer said it blocks in SSL.initialize(). Wait few minutes...
> > Now, a param for AprLifecycleListener named
> > SSL.randSet("/dev/urandom") might help, although it doesn't exists.
> > BTW, I'm not sure that even yours SSLEngine="on|off" works either
> > (its always "on" thought)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mladen.
> >
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