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SubjectRe: /dev/random never refills, 1.99.7
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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).


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