From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 15 22:12:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D7CF106566C for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:12:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5468FC08 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4AA87E853; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:12:24 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:12:22 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/8.0-RC1; KDE/4.3.1; i386; ; ) References: <200911151830.02578.oloringr@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200911151830.02578.oloringr@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911152312.22646.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Ed Jobs Subject: Re: weird save-entropy behaviour X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:12:26 -0000 On Sunday 15 November 2009 17:30:02 Ed Jobs wrote: > Yesterday, i noticed a very weird behaviour on my computer (which is > running 8.0-RC3 btw. > The shells were not responding and the load was insane, and constantly > going up. At the time i managed to lock myself out, the load was 84 and > growing (i have a screenshot if anyone is interested). > > That happened last night. Today, the computer was ok and i managed to ssh > into it. The root account was spammed with two types of cron mails. > > half of them said: > mv: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.2: No such file or directory > > and the other half said: > override r-------- operator/operator for /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.2? > (y/n [n]) not overwritten > > So i know that it's the save-entropy cron job, but i doubt that was > supposed to happen, and i have never touched that directory. Anyone has an > idea? Did the operator uid change or perhaps shared with another uid? Check both `id operator` and `id 2`. Secondly, why did this stop? Seems like a weird question to ask, but since this script is supposed to run every 11 minutes, there should not be a reason for this to stop, if there's a race condition. -- Mel