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FS#3807 - random-seed gets deleted by rc.sysinit

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Matiss Piesins (piesis) - Friday, 20 January 2006, 19:02 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

During the "Removing Leftover Files" phase, all contents but directories under /var/run get deleted, including the random-seed file.

Actually, I don't know how important is the quality of urandom, since this is not a distro for commercial banking servers anyway... :D

It looks like the random seed could get initialized before that cleanup.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Saturday, 21 January 2006, 20:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  FIxed for next initscripts release.

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