Re: Random boot seed cron job for unclean shutdowns?

2017-08-04 Thread Alexander Hall 


On August 4, 2017 9:03:17 PM GMT+02:00, Kevin Chadwick  
wrote:
>
>I've noticed disk checks on a colleagues system many times and will ask
>why on Monday and advise that whilst OpenBSD is rock solid it should
>still be shutdown gracefully.
>
>I am sure this has already been considered but I shall ask anyway just
>in case. Despite running RO root systems in some cases I am now
>wondering if a Cron job to update the random boot seed every ? minutes
>might be a good idea to limit the chance of random boot seed re-use?

Not entirely sure what you're asking, but please realize that a new seed is 
generated already on bootup. Not sure a periodic update would add any 
substantial value. 

/Alexander

Random boot seed cron job for unclean shutdowns?

2017-08-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick 

I've noticed disk checks on a colleagues system many times and will ask
why on Monday and advise that whilst OpenBSD is rock solid it should
still be shutdown gracefully.

I am sure this has already been considered but I shall ask anyway just
in case. Despite running RO root systems in some cases I am now
wondering if a Cron job to update the random boot seed every ? minutes
might be a good idea to limit the chance of random boot seed re-use?