From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 11 9:45:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF4CF37B402; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0BHjb971425; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:45:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:45:37 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200101111745.f0BHjb971425@earth.backplane.com> To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving References: <3A5DB488.7A74332@FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : : For the sake of those who don't follow commit messages (shame on you!), :here's your fair warning regarding this change. This is the promised update :that periodically (every 3 minutes by default) saves 2k of randomness to a Please make the default something more reasonable, like every 30 minutes. It is simply not necessary to save entropy every 3 minutes. It's massive overkill. :set of rotating files stored by default in /.entropy. That location was This is broken. The files should be in /var somewhere... for example, /var/db/entropy/ You should never modify files from a system cron job in / by default, certainly not periodically. Nor do you need to make it a dot file or directory. Please put this file in /var/db. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message