:
:       For the sake of those who don't follow commit messages (shame on you!),
:here's your fair warning regarding this change. This is the promised update
:that periodically (every 3 minutes by default) saves 2k of randomness to a

    Please make the default something more reasonable, like every 30 minutes.
    It is simply not necessary to save entropy every 3 minutes.  It's massive
    overkill.

:set of rotating files stored by default in /.entropy. That location was

    This is broken.  The files should be in /var somewhere... for example,
    /var/db/entropy/

    You should never modify files from a system cron job in / by default,
    certainly not periodically.  Nor do you need to make it a dot file or
    directory.  Please put this file in /var/db.

                                                -Matt



To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Reply via email to