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sun4 9.0.20: ssh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Xiaowen Xin)
Thu Nov 8 00:03:30 2001

Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 00:03:27 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200111080503.AAA01844@hal-2000.mit.edu>
From: Xiaowen Xin <xwxin@MIT.EDU>
To: zacheiss@mit.edu
cc: bugs@mit.edu

1. no.
ps -e | grep cr
returned only cron
but /usr/lib/security/cryptorand exists.

2. yes /dev/random exists

~% ps -a | grep ssh
  1826 pts/3    0:00 ssh
~% truss -p 1826
open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY)   (sleeping...)
^C~% 


>        Hi,
>
>        Can you tell me:
>
>1.) Is there a process named "cryptorand" running on the machine?
>
>2.) Does the file /dev/random exist?
>
>        Also, I'd be interested if you could truss the hanging ssh
>process.  You can do that with:
>
>truss -p <PID of hanging ssh>
>
>        If you could send the last few lines of output from that
>command, I'd appreciate it.
>
>Garry

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