How to configure sources of randomness for Linux on z
Issue
- Commands fail or hang due to lack of entropy
strace
shows appliction stall reading/dev/random
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on IBM System-z
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on IBM System-z
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on IBM System-z
- Linux on z
- s390x architecture
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