> 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.
The file /etc/random-seed would be useless, if it is created this way. Just do a "grep /etc/random-seed /etc/rc.d/init.d/*" and you will see that there exists only one line: /bin/install -m0600 -o0 /dev/null /etc/random-seed First off I thought this would be kind of backup, but it's created out of /dev/null (that's not very random, is it)? When I execute "file /etc/random-seed" it's "/etc/random-seed: empty". So it ends up with an empty file that will be created but never have get accessed. Perhaps it should be /dev/urandom instead of /dev/null? Tobias Stoeckmann -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
