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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Keeping an /entropy file 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:45:49 EST."
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On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:45:49 EST, Dan Moschuk wrote:

> | > Without too big of a bikeshed, what does everyone think of either 
> | > adding a system crontab or modifying the random device itself to generate
> | > /entropy at a specified interval?
> | 
> | It should use the value of ${entropy_file} from /etc{,/defaults}/rc.conf.
> 
> Which eliminates modifying the random device.  /etc/crontab, then?

Assuming Mark doesn't have any better ideas about how to do this, just
make sure that the script called from the crontab uses rc.source_conf to
get the value of ${entropy_file} .

I'm not convinced that the random device isn't the best candidate for
the job, though.  What about using a writable sysctl to specify to the
random device the location of the entropy file?  The value of the sysctl
could be set early in rc .

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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