[arch-projects] [initscripts] [PATCH 03/21] rc.sysinit: Fix writing to /dev/urandom

Kurt J. Bosch kjb-temp-2009 at alpenjodel.de
Tue Jun 28 09:27:27 EDT 2011


Note: The code
 status "$text" $command > $file
writes nothing because there's a &>/dev/null within status().
---
 rc.sysinit |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit
index 864d2c7..fca8b43 100755
--- a/rc.sysinit
+++ b/rc.sysinit
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ status "Activating Swap" swapon -a
 RANDOM_SEED=/var/lib/misc/random-seed
 [[ -f $RANDOM_SEED ]] &&
 	status "Initializing Random Seed" \
-		cat $RANDOM_SEED > /dev/urandom
+		cp $RANDOM_SEED /dev/urandom
 
 stat_busy "Removing Leftover Files"
 	rm -rf /etc/{nologin,shutdownpid} /forcefsck /tmp/* /tmp/.* &>/dev/null
-- 
1.7.1



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