RE: 2.6 Kernel and POP issues

From: Sebastian Hagedorn (no email)
Date: Sat Dec 02 2006 - 13:20:46 EST

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    -- "Robert T. Covell" <> is rumored to have mumbled on 1.
    Dezember 2006 18:50:11 -0600 regarding RE: 2.6 Kernel and POP issues:

    > I have recompiled my cyrus implementation (--with-devrandom=/dev/urandom)
    > and my kernel with no luck.
    >
    > I reboot from the newest 2.4 kernel and my pop clients hang. When
    > checking the 2.6 kernel I looked at /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
    > and saw that it very low (like 5-30, not sure on specifics).
    >
    > Is there something I am not doing right with either the kernel or cyrus?

    Well, recompiling SASL *should've* taken care of that, but you could also
    try disabling APOP in /etc/imapd.conf:

    allowapop: 0

    Restart Cyrus after you make the change. If that helps it means that, for
    whatever reason, Cyrus still uses /dev/random instead of /dev/urandom ...
    if it doesn't help, something else must be wrong. I have no idea what that
    might be.

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