egd.pl 0.7 stops working with Sol8/perl 5.6.0

[Brian Carrier]

John,
Did you try:
% eg/egc.pl /etc/entropy get 
or 
% eg/egc.pl /etc/entropy readb 8

If you have entropy in the pool and readb returns bytes, then I would assume
the problem is not with egd.  

brian

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:31:47PM -0700, John Weaver wrote:
> The usual suspects:
> 
> Solaris 8
> gcc 2.95.2
> perl 5.60
> egd 0.7
> openssl 0.95.a
> openssh 1.2.3
> 
> # egd.pl /etc/entropy
> ---
> 
> It works the first few minutes and then just stops working. OpenSSH 
> connections started still work, ssh just hangs with a new connection. I've 
> even tried --bottomless; no joy. 0.6 and Solaris 7 worked great. I'm going 
> to try the /dev/random that was mentioned before.
> 
> Any ideas?