Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:19:23 +0100 From: tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: errors happening with /usr/libexec/save-entropy on 12.1-p10 Message-ID: <20201013111923.GC30207@rpi4.gilescoppice.lan> In-Reply-To: <20201011150940.6d0f5547@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20201011030537.GA30207@rpi4.gilescoppice.lan> <20201011150940.6d0f5547@gumby.homeunix.com>
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--PuGuTyElPB9bOcsM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 03:09:40PM +0100, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: >If it fails on 12.1 but not on 12-stable that would imply that >it's a long standing problem and something was fixed in stable. There's >no sign that anything like that happened. > >I think it's unlikely that this is caused by save-entropy. All it >does is dd the output of /dev/random to a file and rotate the files. > >When you say that there's plenty of space, are you allowing for the >fact that the operator user can't write to space reserved for root. Basically, at the time, I put 2+2 together and made 7. The problem=20 wasn't with operator or save-entropy at all. There was a process=20 that maxed out the space when save-entropy ran, just at that=20 particular time, and then tidied up after itself. Fixed the process,=20 fixed the problem. Sorry for the noise! --=20 J. --PuGuTyElPB9bOcsM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEE8n3tWhxW11Ccvv9/s8o7QhFzNAUFAl+FjTIACgkQs8o7QhFz NAW6hg/+OhA9C3Xs8fmcEr68TyFoZVFVsbeEdPE8R65iTi+YrHT2n/u3LXOHA2Sf yAdRNGglHf2RKpVgju96gjp6E2qM2Ohua5xNHlJTtlZtQYuSo20zpmYcTToYY0iD UnzRiOJKF3YpLWbqrVI39eT66ZkbfoM8kEsbImb/1IqBAPV0+xBUBmVm6bQ8eP6k yquWM5m3ZmV6nqMEmhGOYwEhhBxeQVgmgmMBt0VtAkKcbSbI/fEfltKwev1RMKK7 SihMnebOjVBVF3GyCos2mJ7rSougB7+8GCwgNEBnzv1+CYQhrMVEfZjUXCsahbg+ 15kkHDpp6j+v/Xtqx9Lii1rZdfU73CLAVaW0cVsQ0wBKgz0u3dkOE/Fp7KIt8ggE vPTlVY14RWE/K23CX/3Akf6crLU60zB8F03gKsh8aL+6MtPxGpOh9eWBDyDJ/Mr5 cNqbaLI0EB7XcYwBixoZTji6evJm75qSKFj5bBKJgzHL0Y2UN7QRbNwUywDoVvji CtC/cZYsd1NPZvUinh0Dwz+OQKisRExzwZyOfpCT9tovwDzPuRLIsW1NjkhkT1Da BTdE8+TClp2VDpt8T3OJUqbqeHqw7J9LNRnt41WNZICBx0wq+oCtC2SNMELw7K/G zjm2gGJx/iFgkYr6Xsz+pnR3eUj/rA+ohZ+MX/KpbMZWtU3Mz4o= =yAJ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PuGuTyElPB9bOcsM--
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