Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:47:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc* stuff Message-ID: <199610250347.UAA18657@dog.farm.org>
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In article <199610241748.TAA13931@grumble.grondar.za> you wrote:
> I wrote that rndcontrol(8) program, so I'll fix it. It is a little too
> chatty by default. That will fix the extra `echo "."'
the main problem with rndcontrol (or, rather, with its usage - the program
itself is very straightforward) is that every time I add or change my PCI
cards I have to track IRQs. Hmm, maybe a little awk wrapper around vmstat -i
output would help?? (yes, I know this is a kludge);
rand_devices="psm0 ed0 zzz"
for dev in ${rand_devices}; do
echo "checking irq for device $dev"
vmstat -i | awk '$1 == dev { print $2 }' dev=$dev | sed 's/irq//; s/^/rndcontrol -s /' | sh
done
> M
> Bill Paul wrote:
> > Just a couple of small nits:
> >
> > - At the very end of /etc/rc.i386, we have this:
> >
> > [begin snippage]
> > echo '.'
> >
> > # interrupts for /dev/random device
> > if [ "X${rand_irqs}" != X"NO" ] ; then
> > echo -n 'entropy source: '
> > rndcontrol ${rand_irqs}
> > fi
> >
> > echo '.' # probably bogus
> > [end snippage]
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