On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Doug Barton wrote:
For the sake of those who don't follow commit messages (shame on you!),
here's your fair warning regarding this change. This is the promised update
that periodically (every 3 minutes by default) saves 2k of randomness to a
set of rotating files
According to Matt Dillon:
Please make the default something more reasonable, like every 30 minutes.
It is simply not necessary to save entropy every 3 minutes. It's massive
overkill.
Agreed.
This is broken. The files should be in /var somewhere... for example,
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:20:44 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote:
This is broken. The files should be in /var somewhere... for example,
/var/db/entropy/
Agreed too, this is the standard location for such things. I know we need
entropy at boot time (hopefully after mounting /var) but
According to Sheldon Hearn:
Hop off the bandwagon. The system didn't use /var/db/ before Doug's
commit either. See my _long_ explanation (before/after/future) on the
cvs-all mailing list.
I know the system used now stores it in /entropy. I was too busy to react at
that time but I still
