openssh unix dev - Apr 2000 - egd.pl 0.7 stops working with Sol8/perl 5.6.0

The usual suspects:

Solaris 8
gcc 2.95.2
perl 5.60
egd 0.7
openssl 0.95.a
openssh 1.2.3

# egd.pl /etc/entropy
---

It works the first few minutes and then just stops working. OpenSSH 
connections started still work, ssh just hangs with a new connection. I've 
even tried --bottomless; no joy. 0.6 and Solaris 7 worked great. I'm going 
to try the /dev/random that was mentioned before.

Any ideas?

John,
Did you try:
% eg/egc.pl /etc/entropy get 
or 
% eg/egc.pl /etc/entropy readb 8

If you have entropy in the pool and readb returns bytes, then I would assume
the problem is not with egd.  

brian

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:31:47PM -0700, John Weaver
wrote:
> The usual suspects:
> 
> Solaris 8
> gcc 2.95.2
> perl 5.60
> egd 0.7
> openssl 0.95.a
> openssh 1.2.3
> 
> # egd.pl /etc/entropy
> ---
> 
> It works the first few minutes and then just stops working. OpenSSH 
> connections started still work, ssh just hangs with a new connection.
I've
> even tried --bottomless; no joy. 0.6 and Solaris 7 worked great. I'm
going
> to try the /dev/random that was mentioned before.
> 
> Any ideas?