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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:39:48 -0700
From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.ORG>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/fortune fortune.c
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Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 05:51:54PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>>entropy_save_num="17"   # Number of entropy cache files to save.
>>
>>And haven't seen any problems with repetitive fortunes in the last 2 days. 
> 
> 
> Could you inspect old saved entries in setup when the bug is active? Are 
> they the same across reboot?

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand this question. When I was seeing the 
problem before, I would see the same fortune about 8 out of 10 times. Now I 
am seeing different ones each time.

It also occurs to me that I changed two things at the same time, which has 
muddied the water a bit. In addition to beefing up my saved entropy, I also 
removed an old fortunes2 file, which is where the fortune I was seeing most 
came from. I'm not sure _why_ that would have caused this problem, or if it 
did, but wit the combination of the two "solutions," my problem is solved.

hth,

Doug

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