From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 10:33:46 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 EEC9A37B401; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:33:19 -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 KAA43188; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:33:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0BIXIP74381; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:33:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:33:17 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Doug Barton , 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: <20010111103317.A74363@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20010111064949.A72688@dragon.nuxi.com> <6671.979225284@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <6671.979225284@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:01:24PM +0200 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 05:01:24PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > We have an entropy_dir because we have multiple files. They are not > garbage collected... save-entropy rotates them a'la newsyslog. Why use /.entropy as the default rather than /var//entropy ? / is often quite small, and everyone knows /var must (1) be writeable, and (2) have space for things to grow in. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message