Re: dev/random

"Bruce A. Mah" writes:
> > Yeah, I think I've got this. Harvesting is now turned ON by default.
> > By the time the user has got to newfs, the secure reseed should have
> > happened. Please let me know if this isn't the case.
>
> Thanks, Mark!
>
> I can confirm that newfs now works shortly after a boot to single-user
> mode.  Might take me awhile to get to a situation where I'm doing
> sysinstall on a new machine again, but I'd expect that we wouldn't see
> any problems.  (If I had a scratch machine, I'd test it now!)

Good to know. Please keep me updated with good and bad news :-)

> Sorry if I was a little blunt in my earlier email...this was the
> latest (and fortunately last) issue in a long chain of problems that
> was keeping me from: 1) burning a 5.2-CURRENT install CD-ROM and 2)
> using it to rebuild my ThinkPad.

I didn't interpret it as blunt, simply a well-put argument for
importance :-)

M
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