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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 2004 23:19:41 +0200
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Subject:   Re: very current won't mount /tmp
Message-ID:  <20040415211941.GC773@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20040415200833.GB74982@ip.net.ua>
References:  <16507.9094.803648.85615@roam.psg.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040412195402.19174B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20040415061146.GD4415@ip.net.ua> <200404151300.30275.kstewart@owt.com> <16510.59977.44165.718679@ran.psg.com> <20040415200833.GB74982@ip.net.ua>

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On 2004.04.15 23:08:33 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > > I think updating UPDATING is a good idea. I tried "feed /dev/random" =
and=20
> > > it couldn't find "feed". What are we supposed to do to get installwor=
ld=20
> > > to work?
> >=20
> > echo foo > /dev/random
> >=20
> The correct command is "echo food >/dev/random".  ;)

Maybe I'm missing something, but couldn't installworld just feed some
data into /dev/random before it start to install stuff?  Or would that
degrade entropy on running systems?

--=20
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team

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