On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 05:56:17PM +0200, Bodo Moeller wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:39:22AM +0200, Lutz Jaenicke wrote: > > > PRNGD - Pseudo Random Number Generator Daemon > > http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.h > > > - You can shut down PRNGD cleanly (it will save actual random data back to > > the seed file) by sending it HUP or TERM. > > prngd --kill /var/run/egd-pool > > will send HUP for you. > > For many daemons, HUP means "re-read the configuration files". > Thus it might occasionally lead to confusion when a daemons > exits on HUP (while obviously it should exit on TERM). > My suggestion for changed behaviour on HUP is reseed from the > seed file (so that any new entropy added to it is not lost), then > write back a new seed file (so that no entropy is lost if > the machine crashes later on) and continue running. Mental note made, thanks for the suggestion. BTW, the correct URI is of with with .html at the end (so much for cut and paste :-) http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html Best regards, Lutz -- Lutz Jaenicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTU Cottbus http://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/personen/jaenicke/ Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Elektrotechnik Tel. +49 355 69-4129 Universitaetsplatz 3-4, D-03044 Cottbus Fax. +49 355 69-4153 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
