Re: pkgsrc build hang of python38

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi!

Lloyd Parkes wrote:
>> I don't think it is that user friendly to recularly "feed" this
>> entropy... and it gets lost at the next reboot? Could we have a script
>> on boot?
>
> The entropy is preserved across reboot by the shutdown hooks, so you
> normally only need to do this once. If you have the bad habit (like I
> do) of rebooting some systems with the "reboot" command instead of
> "shutdown -r", then your entropy will not be preserved. Once I setup
> some entropy and started using "shutdown -r" everything worked fine. 

oh... I use reboot... since 25 years or more... why not?

If an unclean shutdown happens like a crash or powerloss?

Riccardo