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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.


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