From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 9 11:19:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C9B37B699; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:19:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipitythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28745; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f09JJal77803; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:19:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:19:36 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dan Moschuk Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping an /entropy file Message-ID: <20010109111936.A77750@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org References: <20010109105445.A434@spirit.jaded.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010109105445.A434@spirit.jaded.net>; from dan@freebsd.org on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:54:45AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:54:45AM -0500, Dan Moschuk wrote: > Without too big of a bikeshed, what does everyone think of either > adding a system crontab or modifying the random device itself to generate > /entropy at a specified interval? It should use the value of ${entropy_file} from /etc{,/defaults}/rc.conf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message