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
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:08:10PM +0100, Bernard Dugas wrote:
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
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 and at
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
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:08:10 +0100
Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote:
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
-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
Thank you RW, i am new on the list, i didn't answer you because i didn't
received your answer while i received others, don't know why yet.
I would be very interested to find a large but right view in the man
documentation of what is happening exactly to this poor lost file :-)
The
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 ?
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