From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 7 12:55:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D2A37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:55:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64DDF43E4A for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:55:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gA7KtUIX009564; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:55:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:55:30 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Brian Henning Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gpg -random bytes Message-ID: <20021107205530.GC44158@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 07), Brian Henning said: > hello- > > i have looked for a solution on google for this problem but i can't find > anything... > when i run: > gpg --gen-key > > i get this error: > Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give > the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes) > > can someone tell me how to get past this point? Make sure you have told FreeBSD to collect randomness info from its peripherals. Put this in /etc/rc.conf: rand_irqs="5 10 13" Replace the numbers with the IRQs of your disk and network devices (you can get these from dmesg), and reboot. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message