On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se wrote:
Hi,
Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key
http://www.entropykey.com/
for use with FreeBSD?
As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with better
skills already did?
FWIW
Hi,
Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key
http://www.entropykey.com/
for use with FreeBSD?
As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with better
skills already did?
FWIW MirBSD seems to have a port of the keyd.
Thanks
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:51:08 +0100
Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se wrote:
Hi,
Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key
http://www.entropykey.com/
for use with FreeBSD?
As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with
better skills already did
On 11/09/10 01:09, RW wrote:
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:51:08 +0100
Per olof Ljungmarkp...@intersonic.se wrote:
Hi,
Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key
http://www.entropykey.com/
for use with FreeBSD?
As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with
better
is interested).
That happened last night. Today, the computer was ok and i managed to ssh
into it. The root account was spammed with two types of cron mails.
half of them said:
mv: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.2: No such file or directory
and the other half said:
override r operator/operator
(i have a screenshot if anyone is interested).
That happened last night. Today, the computer was ok and i managed to ssh
into it. The root account was spammed with two types of cron mails.
half of them said:
mv: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.2: No such file or directory
and the other
:57, tho the date in them said that they were
sent at 5:50.
It's really strange because I was locked out from the computer at 2:29, so
it's not something I did. and there's nothing that cron runs at that time.
by the way:
the mails that i got were not only about /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.2
/log/cron) show that it was run as operator around the
time it started?
/usr/sbin/cron[47350]: (operator) CMD (/usr/libexec/save-entropy)
Even if it wasn't, I don't see a reason for such a buildup. Unlesssince
stdin isn't sending anything, it could be the scripts wait indefinitely for
user
On Monday 16 November 2009 00:58, Mel Flynn wrote:
Does the cron log (/var/log/cron) show that it was run as operator around
the time it started?
/usr/sbin/cron[47350]: (operator) CMD (/usr/libexec/save-entropy)
Even if it wasn't, I don't see a reason for such a buildup. Unlesssince
Hi,
When i look at / in a standard installation like :
FreeBSD XXX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC
2008 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
There is only 1 file, named entropy :
-rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy
I
entropy :
-rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy
I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc.
Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area,
but no reference...
Do i have to keep it read/write ? Can i put it in /var instead
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
-rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy
I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc.
Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM
area, but no reference...
at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:07:48 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at
shutdown it's saved from random generator.
Only at shutdown, the entropy stored every eleven minutes is
in /var/db/entropy
boot.
Thanks a lot !
1- How may i suggest/learn to add this info in the random generator man page,
so that a search in doc gives the right result ?
use sent-pr
2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put
this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i
shutdown it's saved from random generator.
Only at shutdown, the entropy stored every eleven minutes is
in /var/db/entropy/
thanks for correction.
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:23:05 +0100
Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote:
2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom
generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think
it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ?
It has to be on the root
There is only 1 file, named entropy :
-rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy
I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc.
It contains random numbers that are written-out at shutdown and used to
seed /dev/random on the next boot.
Do i have to keep it read/write ? Can i
-rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy
I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc.
Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area, but
no reference...
at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at shutdown
it's saved from
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator
to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should
be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ?
man rc.conf seek entropy_file and entropy_dir
Thanks, detail is available in /etc
/default/rc.conf detailled file is not searchable in the man
page, nor the default /entropy file.
Best regards,
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:39:56 +0100
Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote:
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom
generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i
think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem
Hey,
Is there an app in the base install that can show the available entropy?
Also, how would you do this programatically?
Thanks.
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:41:22 +0300
Ghirai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey,
Is there an app in the base install that can show the available
entropy? Also, how would you do this programatically?
From 5.0 onwards FreeBSD uses Yarrow for /dev/random. It never
blocks, and only keeps entropy stats
I must have dome something wrong setting up a FreeBSD5.4
system, but I haven't a clue as to what.
The script is called save-entropy, a great idea, but it
acts as if lots of the configuration it needs is missing. I do
have ipfw running and it got all the rules I put in to it via
Martin McCormick writes:
I must have dome something wrong setting up a FreeBSD5.4
system, but I haven't a clue as to what.
This is still Martin McCormick. I haven't found exactly
what I did yet, but I remembered that I do have a second 5.4 box
and it appears to be fine so I can
Quoting Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I must have dome something wrong setting up a FreeBSD5.4
system, but I haven't a clue as to what.
The script is called save-entropy, a great idea, but it
acts as if lots of the configuration it needs is missing. I do
have ipfw
A while ago I started getting error emails (from cron running the
save-entropy script) the system has been setup and running for the best part
of 2 years now.
I can run the script manually from the cli (as root) and no error is
generated.
From all I can figure the save-entropy script is running
For a while now I have been getting cron emails with a problem with
/usr/libexec/save-entropy
Message is - Line 1: socket: Operation not permitted
/var/db/entropy is owned and writable by operator and the saved-entropy
files are modified each time through (going by file timestamp)
Any ideas
Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Cron keeps spamming me:
override r operator/operator for
/var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.6? (y/n [n]) not overwritten
override r operator/operator for
/var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.5? (y/n [n]) not overwritten
override r operator
Hello again!
Cron keeps spamming me:
override r operator/operator for
/var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.6? (y/n [n]) not overwritten
override r operator/operator for
/var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.5? (y/n [n]) not overwritten
override r operator/operator for
/var/db
--: not found
Besides, after upgrading to 6, I go on receiving each 11 minutes the
following email
Date:
Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:00:00 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/usr/libexec/save-entropy
X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh
X-Cron-Env
)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/usr/libexec/save-entropy
X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh
X-Cron-Env:
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
X-Cron-Env: HOME=/
X-Cron-
Env: LOGNAME=operator
X-Cron-Env: USER=operator
--: not found
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/libexec/save-entropy
5 : not found
---
I have noticed that while still at the command line, the number 5
sporadically appears in the boot messages; the system responds with the
equivalent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found this bit of stuff in the rc.conf:
-
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Mon Oct 3 08:28:56 2005
moused_flags=ZAxisMapping 4 5
-
I don't understand why there are doubled-double quotes. This is the only
place in rc.conf that
On Sunday 27 November 2005 08:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings -
[...]
filling up with strange messages regarding a save-entropy thing:
---
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:11:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
Greetings -
I have an installation of 5.3 that I am enjoying, but the root mailbox is
filling up with strange messages regarding a save-entropy thing:
---
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:11:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Sunday 27 November 2005 08:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings -
I have an installation of 5.3 that I am enjoying, but the root mailbox is
filling up with strange messages regarding a save-entropy thing:
---
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:11:00
startup
However it definitely breaks /usr/libexec/save-entropy causing a
-- not found message
Further investigation showed that
inetd_enable=YES#-- enabled inetd 10-11-2005 -- mwr
gives a enabled not found message
man rc.conf gives no guidance as to proper use of # comments in rc.conf
(cf man
Doh! and Duh! Sorry to waste list space on that one... ;) Fixed
now... wierd though since i use vi and don't set it to do any wrapping.
--
Paul Schiro
Sr. Systems Engineer
American Select
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Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Sep 13), Paul Schiro said:
I just got a
I just got a FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE box up and running, and I noticed that
all my rc scripts (despite otherwise working properly) output the
following to stderr when running:
-snip-
gs: not found
files: not found
-snip-
What is the deal with that? I have no made any special modifications to
In the last episode (Sep 13), Paul Schiro said:
I just got a FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE box up and running, and I noticed
that all my rc scripts (despite otherwise working properly) output
the following to stderr when running:
-snip-
gs: not found
files: not found
-snip-
I'd check for typos in
Hello,
what is entropy for?
What are the consequences if one sets rc.conf/entropy_file and
rc.conf/entropy_dir to NO?
-Hanspeter
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Hanspeter Roth wrote:
Hello,
hello, grab a beverage and start reading ;)
what is entropy for?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
What are the consequences if one sets rc.conf/entropy_file and
rc.conf/entropy_dir to NO?
$ grep entropy /etc/defaults/rc.conf
entropy_file=/entropy # Set
Norberto Meijome wrote:
Hanspeter Roth wrote:
Hello,
hello, grab a beverage and start reading ;)
what is entropy for?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy being far more accurate
to this thread.
Beto, with half a brain correcting
On 8/9/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:30:12PM -0600, Danny MacMillan wrote:
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:09:35 -0600, Wes Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess nobody gives rat-rump about the entropy problem.
Figures.
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The people who
I guess nobody gives rat-rump about the entropy problem.
Figures.
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On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:09:35 -0600, Wes Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess nobody gives rat-rump about the entropy problem.
Figures.
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www
The people who know how to help you probably didn't read your original
question, since it was posted under a very misleading subject line. You
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:30:12PM -0600, Danny MacMillan wrote:
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:09:35 -0600, Wes Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess nobody gives rat-rump about the entropy problem.
Figures.
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The people who know how to help you probably didn't read your original
I can't get ssh to work
Does this have anything to do with it?
root: /etc/rc: WARNING: Setting entropy source to blocking mode
Thanks,
Bruce Rohde
713-818-1381
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Hi,
whenever the shell script save-entropy runs (through a
cron job and on the command line) It gives me the
error message:
This: not found
Also on my newly upgraded system 5.3-stable,
sysinstall cannot get the package directory because it
claims that the directory does not exist through
Hello,
Does anybody know what is going on with the crobjob
/usr/libexec/save-entropy that by default is scheduled to run every 10
minutes?
I'm getting tons of log mail because of this, but I don't want to just
comment out the cronjob because it is annoying.
It is only happening on one of my
In the last episode (Jul 19), Duane Winner said:
Does anybody know what is going on with the cronjob
/usr/libexec/save-entropy that by default is scheduled to run every
10 minutes?
I'm getting tons of log mail because of this, but I don't want to
just comment out the cronjob because
Thanks! Using your technique, I discovered that I stupidly forgot to put
a '#' before one of my comments in /etc/rc.conf.
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Jul 19), Duane Winner said:
Does anybody know what is going on with the cronjob
/usr/libexec/save-entropy that by default is scheduled
Hi
On my FreeBSD 5.2.1-R-p5 I have problems with /usr/libexec/save-entropy
in cron. The error message says:
/etc/rc.conf: cannot create /etc/rc.conf: Permission denied
my /etc/rc.conf file permissions:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2,2K 20 Kwi 16:23 /etc/rc.conf*
my /etc/crontab:
# Save some
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:44:33AM +0200, Piotr Gnyp typed:
Hi
On my FreeBSD 5.2.1-R-p5 I have problems with /usr/libexec/save-entropy
in cron. The error message says:
/etc/rc.conf: cannot create /etc/rc.conf: Permission denied
Looks like you have something wrong in your /etc/rc.conf.
my
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks like you have something wrong in your /etc/rc.conf.
And it was, I`ve found the bug. Thanks for help.
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hi there
I just read man hier
and I still see no resson why the entropy device
should be in /
shouldnt it be in /dev???
Jorge
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:14:45AM -0500, Jorge Mario G. wrote:
hi there
I just read man hier
and I still see no resson why the entropy device
should be in /
shouldnt it be in /dev???
It's not a device.
Kris
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I have a problem with the /usr/libexec/save-entropy script executed by
crontab in /etc/crontab :
# Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
*/11 * * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
When I let the /etc/crontab script execute normally I have
Ok, I'm an idiot! I MUST have done something to my system yesterday. It's been running
fine, and around 3:00pm yesterday, I started receiving emails from Cron
/usr/local/save-entropy saying:
*User: not found
I've tried everything, and looking into everything. I've checked my master.passwd
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:10:55AM -0500, Robert Small typed:
Ok, I'm an idiot! I MUST have done something to my system yesterday. It's been
running fine, and around 3:00pm yesterday, I started receiving emails from Cron
/usr/local/save-entropy saying:
*User: not found
Look for the string
On Thursday 04 September 2003 05:33 am, Putinas wrote:
[snip]
and also part of my custom kernel, I tried to commend RANDOM_IP_ID,
PFIL_HOOKS but I got same results :
options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE
options IPFIREWALL #firewall
options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE
Hi everybody.
I think I found what caused the problem with my FreeBSD 5.1
desktop hanging at Entropy harvesting.
Rebuilt with GENERIC kernel and everything went smooth.
In my CUSTOM kernel I had enabled IPFILTER and IPFIREWALL,
but no rules for IPFILTER.
When I removed the lines concerning
Hi
I have just installed 5.1 Release and noticed that there is a new file
in / (entropy).
Why is it placed there and what is it?
Btw please cc to me as I am not on the list.
br
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On Saturday 21 June 2003 11:55 am, Socketd wrote:
Hi
I have just installed 5.1 Release and noticed that there is a new file
in / (entropy).
Why is it placed there and what is it?
Well, for starters, this is the wrong list. You are supposed to ask question
about 5.x on -current. You
On 15 Jan 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Wilkinson,Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on
entropy.
ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc
The term entropy is often used (in rough analogy to its technical
meaning in thermodynamics) in computer
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:51:35AM +, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Kevin Stevens wrote:
On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:46 US/Pacific, Wilkinson,Alex wrote:
Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on
entropy.
ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc
entropy.
Best regards,
Paul
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it could be hard to search for the documents
describing entropy.
Try http://wap.google.com/
It's not perfect, but it doesn't a reasonable job of converting web pages
to WML for display on a WAP device. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out
the URL format it uses so you can go directly
things are not available
by WAP though, and hence it could be hard to search for the documents
describing entropy.
Try http://wap.google.com/
It's not perfect, but it doesn't a reasonable job of converting web pages
to WML for display on a WAP device. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:53:25PM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote:
Do anyone by the way know if a special web-server is required for
serving wap-pages, i.e. can one use Apache? If not, what's out there?
Will take a look in the ports tree to see if I find anything.
A wap page is nothing more than
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:53:25PM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote:
Do anyone by the way know if a special web-server is required for
serving wap-pages, i.e. can one use Apache? If not, what's out there?
Will take a look in the ports tree to see if I
Wilkinson,Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on
entropy.
ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc
The term entropy is often used (in rough analogy to its technical
meaning in thermodynamics) in computer systems to describe the
amount of randomness
You are an absolute cockhead
shell man 4 random
What kind of crack are you smoking wanker ?
- aW
Entropy is a tendency towards disorder in the universe, exemplified by
things LIKE SOME FREAKIN' CLUELESS GIT POSTING A TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC
SCIENCE MESSAGE TO A COMPUTER
From: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/5.0-RELEASE/relnotes-i386.html
The random(4) device has been rewritten to use the Yarrow algorithm. It harvests
entropy from
a variety of interrupt sources, including the console devices, Ethernet and
point-to-point
network interfaces, and mass
Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on
entropy.
ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc
- aW
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On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:46 US/Pacific, Wilkinson,Alex wrote:
Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on
entropy.
ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc
- aW
Entropy is a tendency towards disorder in the universe, exemplified by
things LIKE SOME FREAKIN' CLUELESS GIT
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Kevin Stevens wrote:
On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:46 US/Pacific, Wilkinson,Alex wrote:
Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on
entropy.
ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc
- aW
Entropy is a tendency towards disorder in the universe
hi all,
I had use tcpmssd to changle the MTU problem of my
pppoe gateway, but now I often receive mails about save-entropy.
the mail content is:
tcpmssd: can't create divert socket: Operation not permittedipfw:
socket: Operation not permittedipfw: socket: Operation not permitted
Could
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