On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:58:09AM +0200, Udo Schweigert wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:48:46 +0400, Andrej Cernov wrote: > > In very recent -current, my entropy file writted and readed sucessfully, > > but I got the same fortune quote again and again right after reboot! > > > > It means that anything writted to /dev/random not reseed it but _reset_ it > > to the same default state. > > > > How do you shutdown your machine: > > a) reboot or halt > b) shutdown -r now > > If a) the /entropy file is not updated and the existing one will be used at > next reboot. Only when using shutdown the /etc/rc.shutdown file will be > executed. That was a problem for me, as I often use "halt". I shutdown my machine via Ctrl-Alt-DEL and see "Writting entropy file" message on console, i.e. rc.shutdown is activated. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
