On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 07:51 -0700, Duane Loftus wrote:
>
> While going thru deletions, I ran across this (random-seed) file
> in /var/lib.  Anyone know what it is?
> 
With a name like that I suspect it is the initial seeding file for
random number generators.

> [r...@ip-208-109-24-147 lib]# more random-seed
>
You can't list it (using 'more'), because it is a binary/data file not a
text file. See the 'file' command for help on that.




John.

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