[Building Sakai] Long pause in Sakai startup (2.8.x)

[Matthew Buckett]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:
> Try
> -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom
>
> New Oracle driver has a problem with this, perhaps it's something else.
>
> You don't need to use /dev/random, it's overly secure for anything Sakai is
> doing anyway.

Or just generating some network traffic fixes this. As it's virtualbox
with forwarded ports local ssh traffic isn't enough, but just sending
ping requests to an external host generates enough random data to keep
the sakai startup happy.

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  Matthew Buckett, VLE Developer, IT Services, University of Oxford