convinced myself that it's better then what we have, but still
not perfect.
/etc/rc : Attempt to seed /dev/random with multiple backoffs.
/etc/rc.shutdown : Attempt to write the entropy_file.
In debugging the above changes, I've run into some
inconsistancies... rc.shutdown is run via 'init 6', but
does not appear to be run via '/sbin/reboot'. Thus, this
set of changes improves life depending on the mechanism
used to shut the system down.
Submitted by: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
Approved by: markm
time, and this is used to reseed the random number generator at
boot time.
NOTE - this has no hope of working if you halt(); you need to
execute rc.shutdown to get the entropy stash.
rundown script 'reboot' or 'single'. ISO support (which never
worked) has been removed from mount_nfs. mount_nfs and umount
now use mounttab, which allows umntall to work properly. The
rc scripts now call umntall as appropriate.
Submitted by: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
case instead of test where appropriate, since case allows case is a sh
builtin and (as a side-effect) allows case-insensitivity.
Changes discussed on freebsd-hackers.
Submitted by: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>