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author | markm <markm@FreeBSD.org> | 1995-11-13 21:18:24 +0000 |
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committer | markm <markm@FreeBSD.org> | 1995-11-13 21:18:24 +0000 |
commit | 8c16ebd604343892ac26445d63e7e3ba9eb9eb80 (patch) | |
tree | 660609db169a78418c96cf9f87ce1fc6ba137de0 /etc/sysconfig | |
parent | 446da0733178e92a1f6fae74ce45a9428b6ea86b (diff) | |
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Put in a user-configurable variable to allow root to select interrupts to be
used in the entropy-gathering for /dev/random.
Diffstat (limited to 'etc/sysconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | etc/sysconfig | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/etc/sysconfig b/etc/sysconfig index 268ebfb..20e3bb0 100644 --- a/etc/sysconfig +++ b/etc/sysconfig @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ # This is sysconfig - a file full of useful variables that you can set # to change the default startup behavior of your system. # -# $Id: sysconfig,v 1.26 1995/09/29 20:10:40 wollman Exp $ +# $Id: sysconfig,v 1.27 1995/10/28 12:41:40 peter Exp $ ######################### Start Of Local Configuration Section ########### @@ -197,3 +197,23 @@ ibcs2=NO # Set to YES if you want Linux (a.out) emulation loaded at startup linux=NO + +# Set to a string representing the interrupts you are going to use +# for generating entropy in the kernel (or NO to ignore). +# The keyboard (IRQ 1) is good if it used a lot. +# If the machine is networked, the ethernet card is good. +# The IRQ on an intelligent hard disk controller is good. +# The IRQ's on most sound devices are good. +# +# The following choices are BAD: +# THe IRQ's on COM-ports (SIO devices), the IRQ used by an IDE +# disk or CDROM, and the IRQ on the system clock. +# +# Experiment with the rest. The best interrupts are the ones that +# happen fairly irregularly, and never occur in very high-speed bursts. +# +# You'll have it right when you have a good supply of numbers from +# /dev/random, and no problems on your system, like slowdowns, +# Sluggish net/disk activity, perhaps even errors. + +rand_irqs="-s 1" |