On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 13:36 -0700, John Denker wrote: > > And we should move the seed file to somewhere inside /etc or /lib. It is as > > simple as that. /var cannot be used for any data you need at early > > userspace. > > There are strong arguments for _not_ putting the random-seed in /etc > or /lib. There are lots of systems out there which for security > reasons and/or performance reasons have /etc and /lib on permanently > readonly partitions. It would perhaps also violate FHS...
> I think /var is as good a place as any. More generally, if a random-seed > file is needed at all, it needs to be on a partition with the following > properties: > -- local I'm not sure whether it's really strictly the case that /var is completely local. It might be in Debian, but AFAIU the FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEFILESYSTEM and http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEVARHIERARCHY) says that only parts of /var have to be locale ("non-shareable"). /lib/ doesn't fit either IMO,... /boot sounds perhaps ok?! Cheers, Chris. _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
