Re: /dev/random never refills, 1.99.7

lilo (TaRDiS@mail.utexas.edu)
Sun, 26 May 1996 23:25:21 -0500 (CDT)


On Mon, 27 May 1996, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> So you will have to put your keyboard in the bottom of your pet hampster's
> cage overnight, or run updatedb at 2:30am to create some disk activity.

Well, it runs around 3am. I get plenty of disk activity in 10 hours, that
was why I was surprised than the entropy pool hadn't refilled.

lilo