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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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