Date:Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:41:45 +
From:Ottavio Caruso
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| I shut my system with "halt" and I don't see that error message next
| time the system boot
... random_seed start/stop works perfectly when called manually. So the
question is why it isn't called on shutdown (I always use "halt -p" to stop the
system, rarly I use "reboot").
Carsten
My reply mails did arrive in wrong order
> For normal use, always use shutdown(8) ("shutdown -p now" to power
> off the system as close to immediately as is consistent with a clean
> shutdown).
Oops, thank you, that's it! I can't test it now but this will solve the issue.
Thanks,
Carsten
On 12 November 2015 at 20:22, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date:Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:09:27 +0100 (CET)
> From:carsten.ku...@arcor.de
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> | ... random_seed
> That happens when the seed is loaded, rndctl -L deletes the file when
> it extracts the seed from it (you really only want to use it once.)
> See rndctl(8)
Ok, then it's "random_seed start" that deletes it, that makes sense.
I'm using NetBSD-CURRENT amd64 from October 30th. So is your other
Date:Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:06:44 +0100 (CET)
From:carsten.ku...@arcor.de
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| Ok, then it's "random_seed start" that deletes it, that makes sense.
Yes. It is also deleted in the