make it so monkeysphere-server will respond to --help

[monkeysphere.git] / website / bugs / headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn

diff --git a/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn b/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn
index 634f7317218d2e57d3eb3cc4c68591ca9e2b569e..8f1da5a4aff21c12bf84f957f46db578a5e4a682 100644 (file)
--- a/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn
+++ b/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 When i try to generate a key on a headless machine (no kbd, no mouse,
 no Human Input Device (HID) at all), `monkeysphere gen-key` hangs for
-a *very* long time (a half hour at least) during the generation
+a *very* long time (over an hour so far!) during the generation
 process, particularly at this point:
 
        ms: generating server key...
@@ -24,3 +24,8 @@ I've seen this happen on two machines now in the last week, and was
 able to resolve it on the first one by plugging in a keyboard and
 "massaging" it.  This won't work for a machine that's out of physical
 range, and has no keyboard to be plugged in anyway.
+
+One thing that might help is to suggest that the system administrator
+install a package like `bsdgames` and play console-based games as a
+non-privileged user, since that seems to feed the entropy count
+somewhat.