Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:26:29 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, obrien@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh Message-ID: <11711.979251989@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:22:23 MST." <200101112222.f0BMMNs75120@harmony.village.org>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:22:23 MST, Warner Losh wrote: > Our /var isn't persistant accross boots, btw. It is a mfs file > system. Having a requirement that /var contain persistant data would > likely lead to problems. You get to choose where you want your seed files, via the rc.conf entropy_dir variable. However, it's odd that your /var isn't persistent, given what hier(7) says: /var/tmp temporary files that are kept between system reboots As you can see, my personal religious belief is that this stuff should go into /var/tmp, not /var/db . But let's jump one hurdle at a time, eh? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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