In regard to: Re: [Networker] No entropy device error, Goslin, Paul said...:

I just did a test restore of a single file on our HPUX 11.11 client and
it completed with no errors or problems... So we are not experiencing
any restore issues at least...  I just wondered if any one else had seen
this and if they had a resolution for it..

I've been seeing the same entropy error message on my Solaris 10
workstation since upgrading to 7.4.2.

I did some searching in Powerlink and actually turned up a relevant
hit (!).  The EMC knowledgebase article says this is because the /dev
entry is a symlink and O_NOFOLLOW is being passed on open() by nsrexecd.
The article seems to claim it's because of a change in Solaris, but the
explanation is a little hard to swallow because of other things they say.

It doesn't mention HP-UX at all.

Tim

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Karl Karlsson
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [Networker] No entropy device error

We are currently having the same message on one of our HP UX
11 servers.

We get this message when the nsrexecd deamon is started.

We don't see any problem with this, though we are having
problem doing a restore of this client. I don't know if that
problem relates this error.

Johannes




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From: EMC NetWorker discussion
[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Goslin, Paul
Sent: 25. febrúar 2009 13:12
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] No entropy device error

Server is Win2k3 running 7.4.4, client is HPUX 11.11

When I start the nsrexecd daemon on this HPUX client, I get
the following error message:

Starting nsrexecd
967:nsrexecd: Warning: No entropy gathering device detected
(used to provide ran dom numbers for authentication).
NetWorker will attempt to provide random number s. These
numbers will never be as random as the numbers that could be
provided w ith an entropy gathering device.

Is there an easy way to resolve this ? Or should I just ignore it ?

The client seems to backing up fine for the most part,
although this morning it was the only client in a group that
failed. I stopped / restarted the daemon on the client, and
have re-started the group and it's now running its save-sessions....

Regards,

Paul

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