Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: /var/db/entropy-file not present

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 12 November 2015 at 20:22, Robert Elz <kre%munnari.oz.au@localhost> wrote:
>     Date:        Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:09:27 +0100 (CET)
>     From:        carsten.kunze%arcor.de@localhost
>     Message-ID:  <1497734850.2594690.1447358967825.JavaMail.ngmail%webmail09.arcor-online.net@localhost>
>
>   | ... random_seed start/stop works perfectly when called manually.
>
> That's not really indicative of anything, when you run it the system is
> fully set up, witrh everything available.  But from the startup/shutdown
> system, random_seed is one of the first scripts run at startup (before all
> of the system exists) and thus is also one of the last run at shutdown
> (after much has already been removed).
>
> But ...
>
>   | So the question is why it isn't called on shutdown
>
> Yes, and ...
>
>   | (I always use "halt -p" to stop the system, rarly I use "reboot").
>
> That would be the answer.   See halt(8) where it says ...
>
> CAVEATS
> [...]
>      This command will stop the system without running any shutdown(8)
>      scripts.  Amongst other things, this means that swapping will not be
>      disabled so that raid(4) can shutdown cleanly.  You should normally use
>      shutdown(8) unless you are running in single user mode.
>
> halt (and reboot) are for single user mode, and for emergency use.
>
> For normal use, always use shutdown(8) ("shutdown -p now" to power
> off the system as close to immediately as is consistent with a clean shutdown).
>
> kre
>

I shut my system with "halt" and I don't see that error message next
time the system boot again.


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Ottavio