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To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh 
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In-Reply-To: <200101111301.f0BD1LM54096@freefall.freebsd.org> ; from Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>  "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 05:01:20 PST."
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:06:20 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Thank you, Sir! :-)

> dougb       2001/01/11 05:01:20 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc                  crontab rc 
>     etc/defaults         rc.conf 
>     etc/mtree            BSD.root.dist 
>     libexec              Makefile 
>   Added files:
>     libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh 
>   Log:
>   Add a system to save entropy from /dev/random periodically so that
>   it can be used to reseed at boot time. This will greatly increase
>   the chances that there will be sufficient entropy available at
>   boot time to prevent long delays.
>   
>   For /etc/rc, remove the vmstat and iostat runs from the attempt
>   to provide some cheesy randomness if the files fail, since
>   those programs are dynamically linked, and ldd seems to want
>   some randomness to do its magic.
>   
>   Guidance and parameters for this project were provided by
>   Mark Murray, based on the requirements of the Yarrow
>   algorithm. Some helpful suggestions for implementation
>   (including the tip about iostat and vmstat) were provided
>   by Sheldon Hearn. All blame for problems or mistakes is
>   mine of course.
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.28      +4 -1      src/etc/crontab
>   1.247     +27 -11    src/etc/rc
>   1.84      +4 -1      src/etc/defaults/rc.conf
>   1.48      +5 -1      src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist
>   1.44      +2 -1      src/libexec/Makefile
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Mark Murray
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