Problem with save-entropy

Shane Ambler Shane at 007Marketing.com
Wed Aug 16 16:42:56 UTC 2006


A while ago I started getting error emails (from cron running the
save-entropy script) the system has been setup and running for the best part
of 2 years now.

I can run the script manually from the cli (as root) and no error is
generated.

>From all I can figure the save-entropy script is running as it should ( the
/var/db/entropy/  dir has the created files and by the mod date it keeps
creating new ones correctly each time) I have compared permission settings
with another working machine and all seems fine.
but I keep getting these emails saying there is a socket operation that is
not permitted.

The entire email is:-

Return-Path: <operator at home.com>
X-Original-To: operator
Delivered-To: shane at home.com
Received: by tower.home.com (Postfix, from userid 2)
    id 305DA8127; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:44:00 +0930 (CST)
From: operator at home.com (Cron Daemon)
To: operator at home.com
Subject: Cron <operator at tower> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=operator>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=operator>
Message-Id: <20060816161400.305DA8127 at tower.home.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:44:00 +0930 (CST)
X-UIDL: ?a8!!1*N"!+Z&"!K&o"!

Line 1: socket: Operation not permitted


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Shane Ambler
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