From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 18:33:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7572816A420 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 18:33:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wes@farreaches.org) Received: from farreaches.org (ns.farreaches.org [209.131.233.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5F643D5C for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 18:33:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wes@farreaches.org) Received: from winxpsucks (unknown [10.0.0.25]) by farreaches.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67BCF1B8B3 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 13:33:13 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20050806133322.00f30d48@mail.farreaches.org> X-Sender: wes@mail.farreaches.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 13:33:22 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Wesley Will Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: HTDig on the forum archive is borked X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:33:15 -0000 I get the first 25, and the "next page" gives an error, "contact the mailman admin." You cannot initiate a new search from the results page, either, same error. I was searching the archives (trying to, anyway) to avoid subbing to yet another List to resolve my FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE issue at startup. Googling gets me nowhere, so, one more list it is. I'm noew to BSD, but have been up to my ears in various other flavours of Unix and Linux for several years. There are two problems, might be related, might not. The biggest one, and the one that is drive-me-crazy, take an axe to the box frustrating involves: Before anyone pops up with the perennial "RTFM," be aware that I have ALREADY read the fscking manual. Thoroughly. I have also searched archives, dug around in the file system, and asked some other knowledgeable people who have used FreeBSD for a while. I'm just attempting to switch this one box off of Linux to FreeBSD to see if it will be more stable and more secure. All I need is this one to work, and to figure out the differences, and I might switch a whole lot of other systems over, too. It all depends on the outcome of this one. The problem I am having starts with: "Entropy Device is Blocking" Whose great idea was this one, anyway? I'm all about security, believe me. I have a Master's in IT, and my specialization was (you guessed it) Information Security. From all that book-larnin', one thing stands out. If you make SECURITY interfere with GETTING THE BLOODY JOB DONE, security will be the first thing tossed out the window. Somebody open that window for me, would you? I'm about to toss something out of it. At boot, everything basically fails because of the lack of entropy. I have modified files to give various IRQ's for entropy generation. I have read and searched (and had search engine failures), trying to find out more information on the problem and how to resolve it. No luck thus far. Can anyone give me the pointer to the piece of the fscking manual that tells me how to configure this beast to save a seed at shutdown and then use that seed file at startup instead of just dying and leaving me with a system that is half-booted, or failing that simple request, how to work "preseedrandom" into the system startup so that it will happen BEFORE entropy is required? Once this is fixed, there is another problem, a really weird one, but it might go away when this prng failure does, so it will have to wait. I need to be able to get a bootable system without all the foolishness of seeding the random number systems.first. Mount failures for one slice of a RAID array that are resolved by a dismount and a remount will have to wait for later. -- wes will