From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 23:12:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA5816A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:12:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A3643D4C for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:12:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j1ONCloF015370; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:12:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:12:47 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: gahn Message-ID: <20050224231246.GD60363@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050224225430.11899.qmail@web53107.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050224225430.11899.qmail@web53107.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Entropy is blocking X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:12:48 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 24), gahn said: > what exactly is this entropy thing? it seems to be > killing some processes such as sshd > > freebsd# /etc/rc.d/sshd start > /etc/rc.d/sshd? WARNING: Setting entropy source to > blocking mod. > ================================================== > ...... > Just hit for fast+insecure startup > > ================================================== That happens the first time you reboot after installing the system. There is no stored entropy, and the system needs some randomness so it can generate secure ssh host keys. Once that's done, you shouldn't see this message ever again. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com