Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:34:34 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, 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: <200101120534.f0C5YYH96390@earth.backplane.com> References: <200101120131.f0C1VK980630@earth.backplane.com> <19283.979245383@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200101112222.f0BMMNs75120@harmony.village.org> <200101120305.f0C35gs77450@harmony.village.org> <200101120319.f0C3J5w90928@earth.backplane.com>
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Ok, Doug... we have two good solutions here: Garrett's 5-line fix
to mount_mfs or Warner's fix to /etc/rc.
Even though I originally suggested the solution provided by Garrett's
patch, I think IWarner's fix is better because it focuses the
handling of the issue in one place (/etc/rc), and is easier to follow
and understand conceptually.
I would do the following:
* Use Warner's fix, possibly adding 'dmesg' output in phase-1.
* Change the crontab to something reasonable, like once every
30 minutes. Every 3 minutes is way too disruptive. Massive
overkill.
* Change the rc.conf variable to default to /var/db/entropy.data
(or whatever filename, as long as it is in /var/db).
That's it. I'm not entirely happy with having a cronjob at all, but
I can live with a once-every-30-minutes exec and this could eventually
be solved in other ways.
-Matt
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