From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 15 22:37:36 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 8DE6A106566C for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:37:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oloringr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com (mail-fx0-f227.google.com [209.85.220.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1749F8FC20 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:37:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm27 with SMTP id 27so5422650fxm.3 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:37:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:x-face:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Cm8SJDyZG1tD6xKVtjYMpk4C0P/LcD+6g2Mi7ABKA5k=; b=LWITZaR3TpRY9+0qM+4O1+lIhZPP2MnZFeOnYAQlII0fLn8Xhsp+329sYSHAkMrBdf BpxRqt7bCpRzFrCDLm+2FthH+e/IGJqdLzBM1KA8CB2dP3Ci8XdvvEK5diVCF7x+FOJX hJM88rwN68QfLdtqQ9pOOSzZJbg06VOn2w6oc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:x-face :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=tyW8uNSk95qyGsmDxjqgMVbRU2wtNQ6SuPuvnkX0ggHp3vzoOvRIOy0CcE1pi9T5Md HNH3KapNOCtKVNzk3aPvt12hxiJDqv8IiXFYVCWxa/Tix+QGQD5wBgedCDEZlqz9XVFD 3wATgT5s8YoD+JDomB4DXact6HkqM4Cg9oBHE= Received: by 10.216.85.130 with SMTP id u2mr2367662wee.135.1258324654971; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:37:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from media.localnet (adsl71-46.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.118.46]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g11sm7335504gve.5.2009.11.15.14.37.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:37:34 -0800 (PST) From: Ed Jobs To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:38:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31-ARCH; KDE/4.3.3; i686; ; ) References: <200911151830.02578.oloringr@gmail.com> <200911152312.22646.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <200911152312.22646.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> X-Face: %5EDs|At1pm>WE%P0}6)Hi*s, JH2J${69~j)R"Yu'^P9R3#fvi{LmpsCzxvX*38/, kxcUd QVrlS0G,}-ll{||\P]; *'Gz`RTG+dzconmNyDY3rJHBmpEJkFj|; %vZO&~T")='B<; 88~[ Cltx6#}N*E MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7867678.kd9PpD2bBA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911160038.10993.oloringr@gmail.com> 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 22:37:36 -0000 --nextPart7867678.kd9PpD2bBA Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 16 November 2009 00:12, Mel Flynn wrote: >=20 > Did the operator uid change or perhaps shared with another uid? > Check both `id operator` and `id 2`. >=20 > 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. >=20 # id operator uid=3D2(operator) gid=3D5(operator) groups=3D5(operator) # id 2 uid=3D2(operator) gid=3D5(operator) groups=3D5(operator) As for the orer part, why did it stop, i really have no clue. All the messa= ges=20 arrived at root's mailbox at 5:57, tho the date in them said that they were= =20 sent at 5:50. It's really strange because I was locked out from the computer at 2:29, so= =20 it's not something I did. and there's nothing that cron runs at that time. by the way:=20 the mails that i got were not only about /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.2, b= ut=20 /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.{1,2,3,4,5,6,8} as well =2D-=20 Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard= to=20 understand. --nextPart7867678.kd9PpD2bBA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAksAgtIACgkQBPpdVEWKA310BQCcC6cI2XrZv2n1n4NyLjCHrNvc Pt8AoOGlli9VvUwtDquSCyoLq4hAF3Vk =cd5u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7867678.kd9PpD2bBA--