[John Denker] > Hi -- > > In the current Ubuntu distribution, the following question appears in the > urandom init script: > > # Hm, why is the saved pool re-created at boot? [pere 2009-09-03] > > Answer: > 1) The same SAVEDFILE should never be used twice. Never ever. > 2) It is "nice" if the SAVEDFILE gets updated during an orderly > shutdown, but we cannot depend on this, because of the risk that > the system might crash, due to power outage or whatever. The > best approach is "belt and suspenders" i.e. updating it during > boot *and* updating it again (if possible) during shutdown. > > This explanation should be included within the urandom script, > because the question comes up again and again. > > Please update the source, as far upstream as possible. > > Let me know if you have any questions.
Think you. I'm cc-ing your email to the sysvinit/initscripts maintainers, to make us all aware of this. Will try to find time to update the script as well. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
