Kloxo restart fails giving entropy error

Kloxo, lighttpd as well as FTP restarting failed on a VPS after the installation of VNC there,

Starting kloxo: 11
2009-07-17 08:35:38: (network.c.321) SSL: not enough entropy in the pool
mysqld (pid 29904) is running…

Solution was to create a urandom file. /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail was having the value of 3 or so, which I believe is too low. /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize now has 4096 . /dev/random will block if there is nothing left in the entropy bit bucket. /dev/urandom uses the same bucket – but will not block (it can reuse the pool of bits) and I believe lighttpd can use both random and urandom. Good for us

mknod -m 644 /dev/urandom c 1 9

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