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author | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-07-13 05:35:31 +0000 |
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committer | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-07-13 05:35:31 +0000 |
commit | 2295371422194c0d640086eb5217e80273b2c529 (patch) | |
tree | 8cde5b77006f83eaf3a5b9665be4124ec2e376c7 /UPDATING | |
parent | 6ebbbb92bd7a831548414e4b56858177763f7b7e (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-2295371422194c0d640086eb5217e80273b2c529.zip FreeBSD-src-2295371422194c0d640086eb5217e80273b2c529.tar.gz |
Two entries:
o Mark M has updated the random device to harvest entropy. Put
instructions to tell people how to cope.
o add entry about phk's malloc changes.
Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -5,6 +5,21 @@ directly to him. See end of file for further details. For commonly done items, please see the end of the file. Search for 'COMMON ITEMS:' +20000710: + /dev/random now has good entropy collection (from the keyboard + and sysmouse drivers). Please ensure that either `options + RANDOMDEV' is present in your kernel config file or that + `randomdev_load="YES"' is in your /boot/loader.conf. If you do + not have the /dev/random driver, OpenSSL (and consequently + lots of crypto tools (like SSH)) will fail with strange + errors. (see below, 20000624). + +20000709: + phk made the default options AJ. This may slow things down + and uncover other latent bugs in the code. If you need to run + at full speed, you can disable this by doing the following: + ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf + 20000706: libftpio's version was accidentally bumped a few days ago. This has been corrected. You may need to remove /usr/lib/libftpio.so.6 |