Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:34:51 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ? Message-ID: <20081216223451.457e100f@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4948121C.7070700@dugas-family.org> References: <20081216094719.EDCEE1065675@hub.freebsd.org> <4947A83A.6050101@dugas-family.org> <20081216160701.L61449@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4947C7D9.6090909@dugas-family.org> <20081216163146.E61714@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4948121C.7070700@dugas-family.org>
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:39:56 +0100 Bernard Dugas <bernard@dugas-family.org> wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom > >> generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i > >> think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ? > > > > man rc.conf seek entropy_file and entropy_dir > > Thanks, detail is available in /etc/default/rc.conf : > > "entropy_file="/entropy" # Set to NO to disable caching entropy > through reboots. > # /var/db/entropy-file is preferred if / is > not avail." > > It means that i can put it in /var when L is read-only. There should > be no problem as the file is choosen in rc.conf, so after /var is > mounted. Whatever it says in /etc/default/rc.conf, /entropy is read before /var is mounted.
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