/usr/libexec/save-entropy

Ruben de Groot mail25 at bzerk.org
Wed Apr 21 07:01:02 PDT 2004


On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:44:33AM +0200, Piotr Gnyp typed:
> Hi
> On my FreeBSD 5.2.1-R-p5 I have problems with /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> in cron. The error message says:
> /etc/rc.conf: cannot create /etc/rc.conf: Permission denied

Looks like you have something wrong in your /etc/rc.conf.

> my /etc/rc.conf file permissions:
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2,2K 20 Kwi 16:23 /etc/rc.conf*
> 
> my /etc/crontab:
> # Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
> #*/11   *       *       *       *       operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> 
> What shoud I change for /usr/libexec/save-entropy to work properly? For
> now I`ve switched it off. Please advice.
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