[Opendnssec-user] ods-signerd calling vmstat?!?

[Jarle Greipsland]

Havard Eidnes <he at uninett.no> writes:
> I took a look at the kernel message log from a machine where I've
> installed OpenDNSSEC 1.4, and there I see:
> 
> set{u,g}id pid 23710 (vmstat) was invoked by uid 1072 ppid 11510 (ods-signerd) with fd 2 closed
> 
> Why does ods-signerd need to call vmstat?  If it absolutely must,
> it really should point FD 2 somewhere sensible.
It is probably called from the Botan library, that is again used
by the SoftHSM.  vmstat is one of the programs potentially used
by Botan to gather entropy.
				-jarle
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