Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: /var/db/entropy-file not present

2015-11-13 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:41:45 + From:Ottavio Caruso Message-ID: | I shut my system with "halt" and I don't see that error message next | time the system boot

Aw: Re: Aw: Re: /var/db/entropy-file not present

2015-11-12 Thread carsten . kunze
... 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

Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: /var/db/entropy-file not present

2015-11-12 Thread carsten . kunze
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

Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: /var/db/entropy-file not present

2015-11-12 Thread Ottavio Caruso
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 > Message-ID: > <1497734850.2594690.1447358967825.javamail.ngm...@webmail09.arcor-online.net> > > | ... random_seed

Aw: Re: Aw: Re: /var/db/entropy-file not present

2015-11-12 Thread carsten . kunze
> 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

Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: /var/db/entropy-file not present

2015-11-12 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:06:44 +0100 (CET) From:carsten.ku...@arcor.de Message-ID: <274966638.2594638.1447358804590.javamail.ngm...@webmail09.arcor-online.net> | Ok, then it's "random_seed start" that deletes it, that makes sense. Yes. It is also deleted in the