Seblu, 2011-06-26 19:18:

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Kurt J. Bosch wrote:

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--- 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 ?

NACK To get rid of the cat we would need: eval 'echo -nE "$(< $RANDOM_SEED)" > /dev/urandom' The redirection won't work without eval because status is already redirecting to /dev/null. -- Kurt

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 07:18:07PM +0200, Seblu wrote:

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Kurt J. Bosch wrote:

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---  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

$RANDOM_SEED is a filename, not a string. I don't understand the eval here at all, but it's probably moot given the other recent patchwork...