From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 16:22:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FEA816A4B3 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mgr5.xmission.com (mgr5.xmission.com [198.60.22.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42FA43FDF for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from mail by mgr5.xmission.com with spam-scanned (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1ABjM2-00026m-05 for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:22:26 -0600 Received: from [207.135.128.145] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mgr5.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1ABjLy-000246-05; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:22:23 -0600 Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (localhost.eyesbeyond.com [127.0.0.1]) h9KNNsjG058115; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:23:54 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.12.9p1/8.12.9/Submit) id h9KNNqeD058114; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:23:52 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:23:51 -0600 From: Greg Lewis To: Daniel Fisher Message-ID: <20031020232351.GA58090@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <3F93E062.3030401@fork.pl> <20031020110839.54f1f3c8.daniel.fisher@vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031020110839.54f1f3c8.daniel.fisher@vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on mgr5.xmission.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=8.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file:/dev/random generated exception: null X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:22:28 -0000 On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:08:39AM -0400, Daniel Fisher wrote: > Looks like you ran out of random bytes in /dev/random, which is not > uncommon. > If you want to avoid this error use /dev/urandom. > -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom However, doing so will get you much lower quality random numbers. Depending on how much you value security this may not be acceptable. I'd try rndcontrol(8) first, as Alexey mentioned. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org