[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts 2009.03-1

Damjan Georgievski gdamjan at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 22:16:39 EDT 2009


> Thomas Bächler (2):
>      Fix bug #13205: better random-seed entropy - For the random-seed file
> location to be more "FHS compliant" is better to put in
> /var/lib/misc/random-seed (Variable state   information, that persists after
> reboot) than the /var/run/random-seed (Run-time variable data, that not
> necessarily persists   after reboot) for example with /var/run mounted as
> TMPFS. - The random-seed file permision should be "0600" not "0644" - The
> size of random-seed acording to random(4) manpage should be the size
> specified in "/proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize" in   other case 512 bytes.
>      Use the device nodes from /lib/udev/devices/* instead of hardcoding
> them in initscripts. This requires a new udev package (at least 139-1)

I tested this on a minimal ArchLinux I installed in a virtual machine.
/var/lib/misc/ was not present on that install so rc.shutdown
complained, and the random-seed file of course wasn't created.



-- 
damjan


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