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 --------- Mark Peek Director of Internet Technology IBM Global Small Business/Whistle Communications Work: (650) 577-7052 Email: mark@whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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