Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:10:42 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Ken Chen <ken73.chen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hold-on at 'Entropy harvesting' afer upgrading to 8.1 Message-ID: <282BBBA9-14FC-4B24-82C2-6EF4AFDE4953@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimc6trzgHC7GmRbWp2vvV5%2B=Xw3x7QvEic5gqT8@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimc6trzgHC7GmRbWp2vvV5%2B=Xw3x7QvEic5gqT8@mail.gmail.com>
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On 17/02/2011, at 16:26, Ken Chen wrote: > I upgrade a very old machine from 6.3-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE by > 'freebsd-update'. After boot with 8.1 GENERIC kernel, it holds-on at > ''Entropy harvesting: '. I try to change configuration in > /etc/defaults/rc.conf, it helpless. >=20 >=20 > harvest_interrupt=3D"NO" # Entropy device harvests interrupt = randomness > harvest_ethernet=3D"NO" # Entropy device harvests ethernet randomness > harvest_p_to_p=3D"NO" # Entropy device harvests point-to-point = randomness >=20 >=20 > Then, I 'chmod 0 /etc/rc.d/initrandom'. The 8.1 skipped 'Entropy > harvesting', but hold-on again at 'pre-seeding PRNG'. >=20 > Any suggestion? Thanks and happy Lantern Festival. You should re-enable those, they help feed the entropy pool. You can seed it with a file by setting entropy_file in rc.conf to a file = full of (hopefully) random junk. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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