Re: Error with random generator

Almudena Garcia, le dim. 03 juin 2018 11:21:51 +0200, a ecrit:
> After seatch, I detected that /var/run/random-seed file don't exists.
> 
> I created this using
> 
> cat /dev/random > /var/run/random-seed

The thing is: the random translator is supposed to be reading from
/var/spool/random-seed, not /var/run/random-seed (since the latter
doesn't survive reboots).

> settrans -c /dev/urandom /hurd/random \
>            --seed-file /var/run/urandom-seed --fast

Again, rather make it use /var/spool/random-seed, otherwise the fix
won't survive a reboot.

Samuel