Re: [arch-projects] [initscripts] [PATCH] rc.sysinit: Fix Initializing Random Seed

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Kurt J. Bosch <kjb-temp-2009@alpenjodel.de> wrote:

---  rc.sysinit |    2 +-  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit index a6a5fa5..2d0fdc1 100755 --- a/rc.sysinit +++ b/rc.sysinit @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ status "Activating Swap" swapon -a  RANDOM_SEED=/var/lib/misc/random-seed  [[ -f $RANDOM_SEED ]] &&        status "Initializing Random Seed" \ -               cat $RANDOM_SEED > /dev/urandom +               eval 'cat $RANDOM_SEED > /dev/urandom'

 stat_busy "Removing Leftover Files"        rm -rf /etc/{nologin,shutdownpid} /forcefsck /tmp/* /tmp/.* &>/dev/null -- 1.7.1

why not : echo -nE "$RANDOM_SEED" > /dev/urandom ? -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net