From owner-cvs-all Sun Oct 22 22:11:31 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (adsl-63-206-96-212.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.96.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E88C37B479; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:11:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grondar.za (mark@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id e9N5BQa07054; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <200010230511.e9N5BQa07054@grimreaper.grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc References: <200010201741.KAA87475@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200010201741.KAA87475@freefall.freebsd.org> ; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" "Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:41:46 PDT." Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:11:26 -0700 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message