I put it in /etc because some people have /var on a different partition (like me). In /etc the random-seed file is always available. Slackware does the same thing for the same reason.
robert On January 13, 2006 01:55 pm, Tobias Stoeckmann wrote: > Hi, > > The file /etc/random-seed won't ever be used again after creation so > I think this should be /var/cache/random-seed: > > --- blfs-bootscripts-20051121-hlfs-1.patch~ Fri Jan 13 19:53:19 2006 > +++ blfs-bootscripts-20051121-hlfs-1.patch Fri Jan 13 19:53:33 2006 > @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ > boot_mesg "Saving random seed..." > - /bin/dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/tmp/random-seed \ > - count=1 &>/dev/null > -+ /bin/install -m0600 -o0 /dev/null /etc/random-seed > ++ /bin/install -m0600 -o0 /dev/null /var/cache/random-seed > + if [ -r /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize ]; then > + dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/cache/random-seed count=1 \ > + bs=$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) 2> > /dev/null > > > Tobias Stoeckmann -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
