Following upgrade 6.3 >7.0 /usr/libexec/save-entropy query

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 17 22:27:16 UTC 2008


David Southwell wrote:
> Receiving Automated message from cron
> 
> No such messages under 6.3
> 
> Is there anything I need to attend to here?
> 
> Subject: Cron <...> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> Date: Thursday 17 July 2008
> From: Cron Daemon 
> To: >....... at .....
> 
> unlink: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.8: No such file or directory
> mv: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.7: No such file or directory
> mv: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.5: No such file or directory
> mv: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.1: No such file or directory

Looks like some of those files went missing, but not all. This problem 
will correct itself in roughly 88 minutes, but if it hasn't, or if 
it's annoying you, just 'rm /var/db/entropy/*' and let it start from 
scratch.

hth,

Doug

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