FreeBSD-src - Raptor Engineering's fork of pfsense FreeBSD src with pfSense changes

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*	beforeinstall -> SCRIPTS.	ru	2001-04-07	1	-6/+1
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*	Move the process of storing entropy from /dev/random and reseeding with	dougb	2001-01-14	1	-10/+20
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	it at boot time closer to the way we want it to be in the final version. * Move the default directory to /var/db/entropy * Run the entropy saving cron job every 11 minutes. This seems to be a better default, although still bikeshed material. * Feed /dev/random some cheesy "entropy" from various commands and files before the disks are mounted. This gives /dev/random a better chance of running without blocking early. * Move the reseeding with previously stored entropy to the point immediately after the disks are mounted. * Make the harvesting script a little safer in regards to the possibility of accidentally overwriting something other than a regular file.
*	Add a system to save entropy from /dev/random periodically so that	dougb	2001-01-11	2	-0/+92
	it can be used to reseed at boot time. This will greatly increase the chances that there will be sufficient entropy available at boot time to prevent long delays. For /etc/rc, remove the vmstat and iostat runs from the attempt to provide some cheesy randomness if the files fail, since those programs are dynamically linked, and ldd seems to want some randomness to do its magic. Guidance and parameters for this project were provided by Mark Murray, based on the requirements of the Yarrow algorithm. Some helpful suggestions for implementation (including the tip about iostat and vmstat) were provided by Sheldon Hearn. All blame for problems or mistakes is mine of course.