Pkg exim4 users - Dec 2005 - SMTP timeout with Exim4 (entropy bug)

fredagen den 30 december 2005 15.29 skrev Jeremiah
Foster:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 02:10:47PM +0100, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> > I am not sure why exim4 has suddenly changed its behavior and 
> > refuses to send SMTP mail. Can someone advise?
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4KnownBugsInSarge, third bullet?
> 
> Yep, my entropy is: 0
> 
> Should I disable my SMTP for the time being so people can 
> send mail? That is probably the only option.
I found another workaround on the net.  I temporaly removed /dev/random
and created it with the mknod values from /dev/urandom or if it was the
other way around. Then /etc/init.d/exim4 restart

Later I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.12 or if it was 2.6.14 and the
problem 
went away.

-- 
Johan Thelm?n

Thanks Johan (Tack s? hemskt mycket!)

I think that has worked, I am testing now and things seem speedier
already.

Jeremiah

jeremiah.foster@gmail.com said:
>> http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4KnownBugsInSarge, third bullet?
>> 
>> Yep, my entropy is: 0
>> 
>> Should I disable my SMTP for the time being so people can 
>> send mail? That is probably the only option.
>
> I found another workaround on the net.  I temporaly removed /dev/random
> and created it with the mknod values from /dev/urandom or if it was the
> other way around. Then /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
Doing this has security implications. I wrote up the hack I used and
added it to the above wiki page.

Jason