save-entropy
Scott, Brian
Brian.Scott at det.nsw.edu.au
Fri Jun 16 02:39:35 UTC 2006
That would be the old 'accidentally deleted a # from a line in rc.conf' problem. There are likely to be several lines beginning '# -- ' in the file. New users often accidentally remove the # making the '--' into a command. There will also be a few messages during startup that will also complain about the '--' command but most people ignore these.
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Subject: Re: save-entropy
freebsd 5.4
#!/bin/sh
#
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# $FreeBSD: src/libexec/save-entropy/save-entropy.sh,v 1.2.12.1
2005/04/14 21:49:13 dougb Exp $
# This script is called by cron to store bits of randomness which are
# then used to seed /dev/random on boot.
# Originally developed by Doug Barton, [2]DougB at FreeBSD.org
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
# If there is a global system configuration file, suck it in.
#
if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then
. /etc/defaults/rc.conf
source_rc_confs
elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then
. /etc/rc.conf
fi
case ${entropy_dir} in
[Nn][Oo])
exit 0
;;
*)
entropy_dir=${entropy_dir:-/var/db/entropy}
;;
esac
entropy_save_sz=${entropy_save_sz:-2048}
entropy_save_num=${entropy_save_num:-8}
if [ ! -d "${entropy_dir}" ]; then
umask 077
mkdir "${entropy_dir}" || {
logger -is -t "$0" The entropy directory "${entropy_dir}" does
not \
exist, and cannot be created. Therefore no entropy can be saved. ;
exit 1;}
/usr/sbin/chown operator:operator "${entropy_dir}"
chmod 0700 "${entropy_dir}"
fi
umask 377
for file_num in `jot ${entropy_save_num} ${entropy_save_num} 1`; do
if [ -e "${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num}" ]; then
if [ -f "${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num}" ]; then
new_num=$(($file_num + 1))
if [ "${new_num}" -gt "${entropy_save_num}" ]; then
rm -f "${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num}"
else
mv "${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num}" \
"${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${new_num}"
fi
else
logger -is -t "$0" \
"${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num} is not a regular file, and
therefore \
it will not be rotated. Entropy file harvesting is aborted."
exit 1
fi
fi
done
dd if=/dev/random of="${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.1" \
bs="$entropy_save_sz" count=1 2> /dev/null
exit 0
David Schwartz a écrit :
Since a few days, I receive this in /var/mail/root
Any idea?
Olivier
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FreeBSD version? Contents of /usr/libexec/save-entropy?
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