From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 11 18:39: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA9C37B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:38:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA12887 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:38:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:38:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: entropy bikesheds In-Reply-To: <20010111175109.D74480@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:00:35PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > Since this post actually has some content I'm moving it to > > -current. > > > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > > I agree. RO / is absoultely *REQUIRED* for our application. > > > > As stated, all concerned are sympathetic to that. This is why it's > > configurable. > > > Not really -- specifying /var as the home of these files will not work > very well (as you even show why below). So things *appear* to be > configurable, but aren't. We're talking about the defaults only. There is nothing to prevent you from putting the entropy files in /my/blue/pony if that's where you really want them. I still need to splatter test the really obscure cases in /etc/rc, but our ultimate goal is for total configurability. Doug -- "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment." -- Theodore H. White Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message