Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

[Bernard Dugas]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> -rw-------   1 root  wheel  4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy
>>
>> I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc.
>> Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM 
>> area, but no reference...
> 
> at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at shutdown 
> it's saved from random generator.
> 
> it's here to make random generator more random - not starting clean at 
> boot.

Thanks a lot !

1- How may i suggest/learn to add this info in the random generator man 
page, so that a search in doc gives the right result ?

2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator 
to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be 
? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ?

Thanks a lot,
Best regards,
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