What: Using Meecrowave on a server without large delays on startup
Why: Faster startup during development
How: Use a faster entropy source

Background

Meecrowave uses Tomcat, which uses a SecureRandom instance for session ids. On a server, the underlying entropy source can run short resulting in large delays until the application endpoints are scanned and enabled.

Details

See the tomcat how to.

Solution

Add the following line to the JAVA_OPTS in meecrowave.sh:

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-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom