It's reasonable to assume that recent perl versions do some basic checks if seeding the random number generator works. Often enough, broken random numbers are a very big security problem..

Does your system have a *working* random number generator? What happens if you run this in your bash: 

for i in {1..20}; do echo $RANDOM; done

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What does ls /dev/*random show?

Here's another one: Does your system have a working clock that isn't showing something like "1970-01-01"? That sounds like a strange question, but perldoc -f srand seems to imply that it normally (also) uses the time of day for initialization. A system clock that has been reset to zero (check: "If system clock less than release date" or something like that) might make it easy to guesstimate the initial seed of the RNG, since process id and memory usage should be easy to guesstimate as well, especially if the program is run as part of the startup routine of a known embedded system.

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In reply to Re: Your random numbers are not that random by cavac
in thread Your random numbers are not that random by davies

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