Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:08:00 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, 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: <8786.979240080@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:01:45 PST." <200101111901.f0BJ1jU72510@earth.backplane.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:01:45 PST, Matt Dillon wrote: > I'm going to be blunt: Hell will freeze over before I allow the entropy > file to be placed in /. Chill out. What we have today is a lot better for many people and no worse for any people than what we had yesterday. Let's see if Doug and I can look past your hyperventilation and find some constructive suggestions in your mail... > We have a directory for variable data, it's called /var. We have > a directory for persistent state files, it's called /var/db. They > must be used, ESPECIALLY for something like this. Take the advice you always give Poul-Henning and _read_ the code before you criticise it. We've already got rudimentary fallback support for diskless workstations. We'll work on improving that as well. Did I say chill out? :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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