.rnd file after starting X

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Sun Oct 20 05:44:07 UTC 2013


On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Zoran Kolic <zkolic at sbb.rs> wrote:
> After updating to 9.2 release and upgrading ports,
> I had to compile nvidia driver 319.32. Finally, have
> graphics up. One file shows out of the blue, when-
> ever I run startx, spite I remove it regurarly. The
> size is 1024. Man for rand mentions it. I cannot see
> what openssl has to do with X at the moment. Amd64.
> I might send the file if someone wants to take a closer
> look at it.
> Best regards

startx calls openssl rand when creating its cookie file:
163     mcookie=`/usr/bin/openssl rand -hex 16

It is safe to leave this file alone.`


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