Help! :(

Rémi Guyomarch rguyom@321.net
Tue, 16 May 2000 23:20:44 +0200


On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:28:59PM +0100, Andy Coates wrote:
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> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 20 more bytes)
> ------
>
> and then hangs. I do as it says, run a few programs, bash at the keyboard,
> etc.. but it still just hangs there. I've left it for 10 minutes before
> thinking something wasn't working.
>
> I'm on FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE and using version 1.0.1
man 4 random man 8 rndcontrol