Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:20:44 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving Message-ID: <20010111212044.A68879@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <200101111745.f0BHjb971425@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:45:37AM -0800 References: <3A5DB488.7A74332@FreeBSD.org> <200101111745.f0BHjb971425@earth.backplane.com>
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According to Matt Dillon: > 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. Agreed. > This is broken. The files should be in /var somewhere... for example, > /var/db/entropy/ Agreed too, this is the standard location for such things. I know we need entropy at boot time (hopefully after mounting /var) but that's not a good reason to put them in / IMHO. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 5.0-CURRENT #80: Sun Jun 4 22:44:19 CEST 2000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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