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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:54:01 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving 
Message-ID:  <10481.979246441@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:20:44 %2B0100." <20010111212044.A68879@keltia.freenix.fr> 

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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.


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