key generation in a script or non interactive mode?

[Peter Pentchev]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:25:55PM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Afzal, Naeem M wrote:
> 
> >
> > Ok, I was able to resolve this issue. I have to set HOME=/root  
> > inside the shell to get it going. Now I have new problem, script  
> > runs ok from within this chroot fs, but when keys generation process  
> > just hangs with statement:
> >
> > "Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work.... 
> > (Need 284 more bytes)"
> >
> >
> > How can I force it to complete it?
> 
> Your entropy source dried up.  Normally I'd suggest wiggling the mouse  
> or poking at the keyboard to make some more entropy, but if you're  
> running completely unattended that may be hard (you may not even have  
> a mouse on that box).

I usually do something like "find / -print0 | xargs -0 cksum", but that,
of course, assumes that the kernel will gather entropy from the disk.

> There is a good article on entropy gathering on Linux (I'm assuming  
> you are running Linux here) at http://lwn.net/Articles/283103/

Aye, this is a good article indeed, worth reading by both sysadmins and
everyone else who is interested in randomness :)

G'luck,
Peter

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