[SOLVED] Problem connection POP3 sometimes timeout

Fabio Pietrosanti lists at pietrosanti.it
Mon Feb 6 18:57:04 CET 2006


Rene Marticke wrote:
> Hi list
>
> Talking with myself, but i will add this information.
>
> On a high load of POP3 connections, the Systems runs out of so called 
> entropy. With XEN this happens earlier then without.
>
> Doing the following solved the problem :
>
> mv /dev/random /dev/random.backup
> ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random
>   
This is a tricks for a bug i submitted some days ago:
https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue1101

I think that apop should be disabled because it doesn't introduce any
kind of true security when pop3/ssl is available.




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