From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 11: 9:50 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7972137B69B; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:09:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14Gn64-0004go-00; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:09:16 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id VAA02854; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:09:13 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 2733; Thu Jan 11 21:08:01 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14Gn4q-0002Hj-00; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:08:00 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Matt Dillon Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, Doug Barton , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:01:45 PST." <200101111901.f0BJ1jU72510@earth.backplane.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:08:00 +0200 Message-ID: <8786.979240080@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:01:45 PST, Matt Dillon wrote: > I'm going to be blunt: Hell will freeze over before I allow the entropy > file to be placed in /. Chill out. What we have today is a lot better for many people and no worse for any people than what we had yesterday. Let's see if Doug and I can look past your hyperventilation and find some constructive suggestions in your mail... > We have a directory for variable data, it's called /var. We have > a directory for persistent state files, it's called /var/db. They > must be used, ESPECIALLY for something like this. Take the advice you always give Poul-Henning and _read_ the code before you criticise it. We've already got rudimentary fallback support for diskless workstations. We'll work on improving that as well. Did I say chill out? :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message