From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 14 23:20: 2 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1030837B400; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:19:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14I3vP-0005fm-00; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:19:31 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id JAA15844; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:19:30 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 15703; Mon Jan 15 09:18:45 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14I3uf-0008dI-00; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:18:45 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Doug Barton Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.confsrc/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist BSD.var.dist src/libexec/save-entropysave-entropy.sh In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:53:59 PST." <3A615B17.39E1E474@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:18:45 +0200 Message-ID: <33187.979543125@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:53:59 PST, Doug Barton wrote: > The operation of writing out the file generates so little load that > I've never noticed it on my home workstation which has been running it > for days at the 3 minute period. In fact, as Matt pointed out, I think that the people more likely to find the cron job annoying are folks who want their drives to power down and stay powered down. These folks will probably want to disable this feature completely by setting entropy_dir to NO and rely on the entropy saved by rc.shutdown only. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message