Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:43:54 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <683.964446234@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2000 06:40:41 MST." <200007241340.GAA88539@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 06:40:41 MST, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> Modified files:
> etc rc
> Log:
> If the initial attempt to write ${entropy_file} to /dev/random fails
> and the randomdev.ko module is not resident, try to load the module and
> perform the write again.
Although the decision to load the module should probably be controlled
by some other option, there's already a boot loader option for it and
folks who don't want to load the module should simply set
entropy_file="NO"
in /etc/rc.conf .
This is not a big issue, because this whole approach is likely to change
soon.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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