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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:45:49 -0500
From:      Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Keeping an /entropy file
Message-ID:  <20010109154549.A2618@spirit.jaded.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010109111936.A77750@dragon.nuxi.com>; from TrimYourCc@NUXI.com on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:19:36AM -0800
References:  <20010109105445.A434@spirit.jaded.net> <20010109111936.A77750@dragon.nuxi.com>

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| > Without too big of a bikeshed, what does everyone think of either 
| > adding a system crontab or modifying the random device itself to generate
| > /entropy at a specified interval?
| 
| It should use the value of ${entropy_file} from /etc{,/defaults}/rc.conf.

Which eliminates modifying the random device.  /etc/crontab, then?

-- 
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called
upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
                -- Oscar Wilde


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