Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:33:17 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, 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 Message-ID: <20010111103317.A74363@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <6671.979225284@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:01:24PM %2B0200 References: <20010111064949.A72688@dragon.nuxi.com> <6671.979225284@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:01:24PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > We have an entropy_dir because we have multiple files. They are not > garbage collected... save-entropy rotates them a'la newsyslog. Why use /.entropy as the default rather than /var/<xxx>/entropy ? / is often quite small, and everyone knows /var must (1) be writeable, and (2) have space for things to grow in. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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