From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 14:27:56 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 D23A237B400; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:27:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14GqBl-0006Kt-00; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:27:21 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id AAA28042; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:27:20 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 3475; Fri Jan 12 00:26:29 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14GqAv-00032u-00; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:26:29 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Warner Losh Cc: Jordan Hubbard , 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 15:22:23 MST." <200101112222.f0BMMNs75120@harmony.village.org> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:26:29 +0200 Message-ID: <11711.979251989@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:22:23 MST, Warner Losh wrote: > Our /var isn't persistant accross boots, btw. It is a mfs file > system. Having a requirement that /var contain persistant data would > likely lead to problems. You get to choose where you want your seed files, via the rc.conf entropy_dir variable. However, it's odd that your /var isn't persistent, given what hier(7) says: /var/tmp temporary files that are kept between system reboots As you can see, my personal religious belief is that this stuff should go into /var/tmp, not /var/db . But let's jump one hurdle at a time, eh? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message