Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:56:31 +0100 From: Mark Murray <markm@freebsd.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dev/random Message-ID: <200404200656.i3K6uVIn021077@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:58:54 PDT." <20040420035854.GA800@tomcat.kitchenlab.org>
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"Bruce A. Mah" writes: > > Yeah, I think I've got this. Harvesting is now turned ON by default. > > By the time the user has got to newfs, the secure reseed should have > > happened. Please let me know if this isn't the case. > > Thanks, Mark! > > I can confirm that newfs now works shortly after a boot to single-user > mode. Might take me awhile to get to a situation where I'm doing > sysinstall on a new machine again, but I'd expect that we wouldn't see > any problems. (If I had a scratch machine, I'd test it now!) Good to know. Please keep me updated with good and bad news :-) > Sorry if I was a little blunt in my earlier email...this was the > latest (and fortunately last) issue in a long chain of problems that > was keeping me from: 1) burning a 5.2-CURRENT install CD-ROM and 2) > using it to rebuild my ThinkPad. I didn't interpret it as blunt, simply a well-put argument for importance :-) M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
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