From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 11 12:55:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F318C37B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:55:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14GokO-0005YU-00; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:55:00 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id WAA15779; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:54:59 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 15646; Thu Jan 11 22:54:01 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14GojR-0002j4-00; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:54:01 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Ollivier Robert Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:20:44 +0100." <20010111212044.A68879@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:54:01 +0200 Message-ID: <10481.979246441@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:20:44 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > This is broken. The files should be in /var somewhere... for example, > > /var/db/entropy/ > > Agreed too, this is the standard location for such things. I know we need > entropy at boot time (hopefully after mounting /var) but that's not a good > reason to put them in / IMHO. Hop off the bandwagon. The system didn't use /var/db/ before Doug's commit either. See my _long_ explanation (before/after/future) on the cvs-all mailing list. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message