Doh! I don't know how that patch got like that, I must have made it when I was asleep. All the /var/cache/random-seed filenames should be named /etc/random-seed.
robert On January 14, 2006 12:39 am, Tobias Stoeckmann wrote: > > 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
