cvs commit: src/games/fortune/fortune fortune.c

Andrey Chernov ache at FreeBSD.ORG
Sat Jul 23 03:10:56 GMT 2005


On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 07:05:59AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> If you set entropy_file="NO", you must have at least 
> /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.* across reboots. If it fix your fortune 
> problem, please back out your commit and fix /etc/defaults/rc.conf 
> instead.

Moreover, I suggest to back it out in any case (i.e. even my suggestion 
not fix the situation). As I already mention, the whole situation are 
dangerous from security point of view, so it is better to contact to 
/dev/random authors to resolve this issue one way or another.

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