Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:12:22 +0100 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ed Jobs <oloringr@gmail.com> Subject: Re: weird save-entropy behaviour Message-ID: <200911152312.22646.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <200911151830.02578.oloringr@gmail.com> References: <200911151830.02578.oloringr@gmail.com>
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On Sunday 15 November 2009 17:30:02 Ed Jobs wrote: > Yesterday, i noticed a very weird behaviour on my computer (which is > running 8.0-RC3 btw. > The shells were not responding and the load was insane, and constantly > going up. At the time i managed to lock myself out, the load was 84 and > growing (i have a screenshot if anyone is interested). > > That happened last night. Today, the computer was ok and i managed to ssh > into it. The root account was spammed with two types of cron mails. > > half of them said: > mv: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.2: No such file or directory > > and the other half said: > override r-------- operator/operator for /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.2? > (y/n [n]) not overwritten > > So i know that it's the save-entropy cron job, but i doubt that was > supposed to happen, and i have never touched that directory. Anyone has an > idea? Did the operator uid change or perhaps shared with another uid? Check both `id operator` and `id 2`. Secondly, why did this stop? Seems like a weird question to ask, but since this script is supposed to run every 11 minutes, there should not be a reason for this to stop, if there's a race condition. -- Mel
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