Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:39:48 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.ORG>, Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/fortune fortune.c Message-ID: <42E531F4.8000300@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050725162224.GA93242@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20050724135738.GM46538@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <64009.1122213962@phk.freebsd.dk> <20050724181912.GO46538@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <42E3DF1E.9040405@freebsd.org> <42E437AA.1050307@FreeBSD.org> <20050725162224.GA93242@nagual.pp.ru>
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Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 05:51:54PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>
>>entropy_save_num="17" # Number of entropy cache files to save.
>>
>>And haven't seen any problems with repetitive fortunes in the last 2 days.
>
>
> Could you inspect old saved entries in setup when the bug is active? Are
> they the same across reboot?
I'm sorry, I don't quite understand this question. When I was seeing the
problem before, I would see the same fortune about 8 out of 10 times. Now I
am seeing different ones each time.
It also occurs to me that I changed two things at the same time, which has
muddied the water a bit. In addition to beefing up my saved entropy, I also
removed an old fortunes2 file, which is where the fortune I was seeing most
came from. I'm not sure _why_ that would have caused this problem, or if it
did, but wit the combination of the two "solutions," my problem is solved.
hth,
Doug
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