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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc 
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 06:40:41 MST, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

>   Modified files:
>     etc                  rc 
>   Log:
>   If the initial attempt to write ${entropy_file} to /dev/random fails
>   and the randomdev.ko module is not resident, try to load the module and
>   perform the write again.

Although the decision to load the module should probably be controlled
by some other option, there's already a boot loader option for it and
folks who don't want to load the module should simply set

	entropy_file="NO"

in /etc/rc.conf .

This is not a big issue, because this whole approach is likely to change
soon.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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