Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:18:45 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.confsrc/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist BSD.var.dist src/libexec/save-entropysave-entropy.sh Message-ID: <33187.979543125@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:53:59 PST." <3A615B17.39E1E474@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:53:59 PST, Doug Barton wrote: > The operation of writing out the file generates so little load that > I've never noticed it on my home workstation which has been running it > for days at the 3 minute period. In fact, as Matt pointed out, I think that the people more likely to find the cron job annoying are folks who want their drives to power down and stay powered down. These folks will probably want to disable this feature completely by setting entropy_dir to NO and rely on the entropy saved by rc.shutdown only. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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