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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:33:41 -0800
From:      Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        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
Message-ID:  <p05010410b683c81dc22e@[207.76.207.169]>
In-Reply-To: <9216.979241717@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
References:  <9216.979241717@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>

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At 9:35 PM +0200 1/11/01, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>When these files can be moved out of the root partition, they will
>be.  That's been accepted since the very first startup-seeding was
>introduced.
>
>When that happens, the changes to crontab and the new save-entropy tool
>will still be used and we'll just change the entropy_dir in
>/etc/defaults/rc.conf .
>
>See?  We know where we're going, we're helping people out until we get
>there _and_ we're not rising to the bait when people overreact.

Great. Thanks for the clarification. We have quite a few devices
(internally and InterJets out in the field) which run with a read-only "/"
and it's good to know we will continue to have this capability when the
current current becomes stable.

Mark

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Mark Peek
Director of Internet Technology
IBM Global Small Business/Whistle Communications
Work:  (650) 577-7052      Email: mark@whistle.com


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