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Date:      Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:11:26 -0700
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc 
Message-ID:  <200010230511.e9N5BQa07054@grimreaper.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: <200010201741.KAA87475@freefall.freebsd.org> ; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>  "Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:41:46 PDT."
References:  <200010201741.KAA87475@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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> jkh         2000/10/20 10:41:46 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc                  rc 
>   Log:
>   Redirect the stderr of dd to /dev/null so the user doesn't see rather
>   weird dd output on bootup as /dev/random is being reseeded.  Also,
>   can't this happen in the background since /dev/random blocks?

It makes vaguely more sense to pipe this into /dev/random :-).

The writes are non-blocking.

M
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