rc.d/random: bring back rc.conf defaults, minor fixes

Operating Systems / DragonFlyBSD - Alex Hornung [alexhornung.com] - 14 July 2014 12:29 UTC

- Saving the entropy across reboots is good practice to avoid having a lack of entropy after restarting the machine. For some reason, it has been disabled by default for ages now.

- This commit brings back the defaults in rc.conf to enable saving entropy across reboots.

- Minor fixes to rc.d/random, such as not assuming /var/db/entropy is a good place to put the entropy file, last but not least because:- that location is not checked on the start part of the script, so it won't ever be used.- /var/db/entropy is most of the time a directory, for the cron-based entropy collection.

ceccfc6 rc.d/random: bring back rc.conf defaults, minor fixes
etc/defaults/rc.conf | 2 ++
etc/rc.d/random | 18 +++++++-----------
share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 | 10 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Upstream: gitweb.dragonflybsd.org

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