From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 12:36:19 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (s206m1.whistle.com [207.76.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5DA37B400; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:35:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [207.76.207.169] (PBG3.whistle.com [207.76.207.169]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA53349; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:34:31 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: mark@207.76.206.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <9216.979241717@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> References: <9216.979241717@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:33:41 -0800 To: Sheldon Hearn From: Mark Peek 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 Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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