From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 6:50:18 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1EF037B404; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:49:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipitythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA42117; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:49:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0BEnoh72819; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:49:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:49:49 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Doug Barton Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh Message-ID: <20010111064949.A72688@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200101111301.f0BD1LM54096@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101111301.f0BD1LM54096@freefall.freebsd.org>; from dougb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:01:20AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:01:20AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Log: > Add a system to save entropy from /dev/random periodically so that > it can be used to reseed at boot time. This will greatly increase > the chances that there will be sufficient entropy available at > boot time to prevent long delays. Can you address why we now have an entropy_dir, how it is intended to be used, and what garbage collects the files in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message