Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Hi, > > this was discussed a while ago (and I don't remember the ... > status-quo), but with a recent current I see non-random output of > fortune when using non standard files: I do something vaguely similar to what you're doing, which is to point fortune at a directory of symlinks to various fortune files (see man page for why that works). My -current is as of 6/19 and I'm not seeing this behavior, FYI. (I'd actually be sort of interested to see if you get the same results using this method as you do specifying files on the command line.) FWIW, I did see problems back when this last came up, but for an entirely different reason. It turns out that there were stale fortune files in /usr/share/games/fortune that were causing problems. Depending on your upgrading habits, you might try something like: find /usr/share/games/fortune/ -type f ! -newer /usr/src/README and see if anything interesting turns up. Not sure about your other directories though. Finally, the obvious thing to check would be that your /dev/random device is being properly seeded. Check 'sysctl kern.random.sys.harvest' and make sure at least one of those is set to 1. You can also run: rndc-confgen -b512 -c ./rndc-key -a -r/dev/random multiple times to see if you've got a good supply of random bits. You should be able to run that command at least 10 times without it blocking. If you can't, you've got /dev/random issues. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protectionReceived on Fri Jun 23 2006 - 21:35:04 UTC
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