Re: gpg /netstat problems
From: Olaf Bohlen (firefox@sun-powered.de)Date: 05/07/02
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Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 18:54:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Bohlen <firefox@sun-powered.de> To: focus-sun@securityfocus.com, richard.cross@freeserve.com
Hi,
> and found that it forks a separate process which turned out to be:
>
> netstat -p -f inet
>
> and it was hanging because it couldn't resolve the addresses,
however
> that aside...
>
> ... anyone know why it needs to do this and whether or not this can
be
> disabled? Could it potentially be a security risk? (FYI it was the
it uses this method to generate entropy. there are even more programs
started sometimes. ssh and sshd do the same thing. apply the sun patch
for /dev/urandom on Solaris8 and recompile gpg. this should help.
Yours
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