Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:38:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: entropy bikesheds Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101111837080.12880-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20010111175109.D74480@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:00:35PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> > Since this post actually has some content I'm moving it to
> > -current.
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> > > I agree. RO / is absoultely *REQUIRED* for our application.
> >
> > As stated, all concerned are sympathetic to that. This is why it's
> > configurable.
>
>
> Not really -- specifying /var as the home of these files will not work
> very well (as you even show why below). So things *appear* to be
> configurable, but aren't.
We're talking about the defaults only. There is nothing to prevent
you from putting the entropy files in /my/blue/pony if that's where you
really want them. I still need to splatter test the really obscure cases
in /etc/rc, but our ultimate goal is for total configurability.
Doug
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