From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 11 12:26:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8569737B401 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:26:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.3/frmug-2.7/nospam) with UUCP id VAA28504 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:26:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix/TLS, from userid 101) id 2243787AE; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:20:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:20:44 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving Message-ID: <20010111212044.A68879@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3A5DB488.7A74332@FreeBSD.org> <200101111745.f0BHjb971425@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200101111745.f0BHjb971425@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:45:37AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT K6-3D/266 & 2x PPro/200 SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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