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

Seblu seblu at seblu.net
Sun Jun 26 13:18:07 EDT 2011


On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Kurt J. Bosch
<kjb-temp-2009 at 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  ?


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Sébastien Luttringer
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