Comments on: Apache hangs on Digest Secret generation

By: John

John — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:28:35 +0000

Worked like a champ, tx!

By: Slow Apache Starts on Ubuntu | What a n00b!

Slow Apache Starts on Ubuntu | What a n00b! — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:38:15 +0000

[...] to a couple of blog posts, installing rng-tools and running the rngd daemon seemed to be the [...]

By: Dyr

Dyr — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:54:15 +0000

Thank you, man, it’s extrimely useful!

By: ikratus

ikratus — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:28:56 +0000

i agree with mr_daemon. i have a small setup so making the symlink hasnt given me any problems thus far, but if you have stuff you know relies on random go with OP

By: PP

PP — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:28:27 +0000

I hope this will be really helpful, but I would like to use the more elegant solution, and I have no idea what "re-emerge dev-libs/apr with the urandom use flag enabled" means. Do I need to recompile apr? Can I just change something in httpd.conf?

I'm on OSX 10.4 with MacPorts, so that means I REALLY don't know anything. Any more help would be lovely.

By: Juan

Juan — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:51:08 +0000

You are a genius. I was scratching my head for hours getting apache to run on a quad xeon I just reclaimed from the garage.

Juan

By: mr_daemon

mr_daemon — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:58:17 +0000

Make random a symlink to urandom.

Mmm. I'm not too hot about that idea. I'm not sure of the implications of other software that might be relying on the more expansive random, so I'd rather do this on a case by case basis.

By: R.Y.

R.Y. — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:23:39 +0000

I was having the same problems, this worked for me, without using rng-tools.

Make random a symlink to urandom.

/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules KERNEL=="random", NAME="oldrandom", MODE="0666" KERNEL=="urandom", NAME="%k", symlink+="random", MODE="0444"

then, $ udevstart

Hope this helps.

By: Reaktorblog

Reaktorblog — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:42:28 +0000

Apache Digest generation on Gentoo...

How to get it running ? ......

By: Alberto

Alberto — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:18:07 +0000

Thank you for such a brief, clean and useful explanation. I have been wondering on this low startup problems from time to time never being able to solve it.

I bow to the master.