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I’ll say…
It takes a brave man to praise M$ in an interview with a Java magazine. 
I’m waiting for the hate mail to start…
Here’s an obscure problem with an even more obscure solution. This drove me crazy all day today.
In trying to set up SMTP AUTH on DebtX’s new mail server, I decided to use SASL for authentication. When I tried to create a new user in sasldb using saslpasswd, the app just hung there, never writing any data to /etc/sasldb.
After hours of searching for a solution, I found this on The FAQChest:
Subject: Solution: saslpasswd hangs ( cyrus-sasl-1.5.24-17 )
From: “Greg Waehner”
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:21:31 -0500
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Thanks to a whole host of people, I’ve find the problem and answer.
saslpasswd uses /dev/random even if “auto_transition=yes” is NOT in your config files.
/dev/random uses audio, keyboard, and mouse input from the host. In my case,
there is no keyboard, no mouse, and no audio. I access the server via SSH, and as such, /dev/random never returned info. to saslpasswd.
Thus, the hang.
Solution: make /dev/random a symlink /dev/urandom
Implementation:
( as root )
cd /dev
rm random
ln -s /dev/urandom random
Thanks again to everyone who helped out.
Greg Waehner
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Thanks to Google:
From: Kevin Jarnot (jarnot@canisius.UUCP)
Subject: Re: Hard disks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
View: Complete Thread (3 articles) | Original Format
Date: 1989-05-08 01:09:36 PST
In article , grinberg@bimacs.BITNET (Dennis Grinberg) writes:
> I have a clone (Taiwanese)_ that a bought a couple of years ago from a store
> that has since seen red. (I told you so…) My hard disk (Microscience
> 100341-001) has recently been giving problems. I can’t even test it with
> Nortons DT because when trying to read one of the clusters (marked as bad)
> it gives a “Disk C: not ready” and quits.
>
> I’d like to do a low level format (I do not have spinrite), the gc800:0005
> doesn’t do anything and the INT 13 interrupts documented in the _old_
> IBM XT technical reference don’t seem to work for me. My controller
> is an Adaptec, the only other identification on it is the BIOS which says
> 405702-00A 1986 and another chip with 405701-00 1986.
>
> Anybody have any ideas?
Dennis, I recommend a great program called Disk Manager. It will allow you
to install many different non-compatible drives on a PC/XT/AT. Works very
well, but be fore-warned, it uses device drivers for partitioning, and they
MAY get lossed (therefore, losing your data). Probably won’t happen, though (knock on wood).
> Last question: Can anyone list the different types of AT drives?
By the way, a VERY complete listing of drives comes with Disk Manager (with
many specs on said drives, also).
Kevin
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