Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:39:35 +0400 From: =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken Message-ID: <20001020103935.A20540@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20001020075809.A20959@alaska.cert.siemens.de>; from ust@cert.siemens.de on Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:58:09AM %2B0200 References: <20001020084845.A19580@nagual.pp.ru> <20001020075809.A20959@alaska.cert.siemens.de>
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:58:09AM +0200, Udo Schweigert wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:48:46 +0400, Andrej Cernov wrote: > > In very recent -current, my entropy file writted and readed sucessfully, > > but I got the same fortune quote again and again right after reboot! > > > > It means that anything writted to /dev/random not reseed it but _reset_ it > > to the same default state. > > > > How do you shutdown your machine: > > a) reboot or halt > b) shutdown -r now > > If a) the /entropy file is not updated and the existing one will be used at > next reboot. Only when using shutdown the /etc/rc.shutdown file will be > executed. That was a problem for me, as I often use "halt". I shutdown my machine via Ctrl-Alt-DEL and see "Writting entropy file" message on console, i.e. rc.shutdown is activated. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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