In linux.dev.kernel, lilo <TaRDiS@mail.utexas.edu> wrote: >See topic. I was silly enough to do a cat of /dev/random, now, 10 hours >later, still nothing there.
Do you run ssh, by any chance? sshd tends to empty out /dev/random, unfortunately (I've told the author about it, and he considers it a bug, to be fixed in the next release, possibly).