.rnd file

[Ben Morrow]

Quoth Zoran Kolic <zkolic at sbb.rs>:
> After compiling nvidia-driver, I see .rnd file
> in my home directory. Not here in previous ver-
> sion. After I delete it, rerunning X, it is there
> again. Someone knows what that file is?

It's created by openssl as an entropy cache. See e.g. rand(1). I don't
think the new nvidia-driver has anything to do with it, unless it's
somehow causing openssl to be run when it wasn't before.

Ben