[OE-core] [PATCH] initscripts/urandom: change random-seed directory

Ming Liu ming.liu at windriver.com
Fri Nov 30 10:19:28 UTC 2012


/etc/init.d/urandom fails to start/stop because it tries to save
random-seed into /var/lib/urandom folder which does not exist in the
file system.

Fixed by using /var/lib/misc instead of /var/lib/urandom.

Signed-off-by: Ming Liu <ming.liu at windriver.com>
---
 meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/urandom | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/urandom b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/urandom
index eb3a7c3..1cf7c5c 100755
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/urandom
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/urandom
@@ -14,18 +14,19 @@
 test -c /dev/urandom || exit 0
 . /etc/default/rcS
 
+SAVEDFILE=/var/lib/misc/random-seed
 case "$1" in
 	start|"")
 		test "$VERBOSE" != no && echo "Initializing random number generator..."
 		# Load and then save 512 bytes,
 		# which is the size of the entropy pool
-		if test -f /var/lib/urandom/random-seed
+		if test -f $SAVEDFILE
 		then
-			cat /var/lib/urandom/random-seed >/dev/urandom
+			cat $SAVEDFILE >/dev/urandom
 		fi
-		rm -f /var/lib/urandom/random-seed
+		rm -f $SAVEDFILE
 		umask 077
-		dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/lib/urandom/random-seed count=1 \
+		dd if=/dev/urandom of=$SAVEDFILE count=1 \
 			>/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "urandom start: failed."
 		umask 022
 		;;
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ case "$1" in
 		# see documentation in linux/drivers/char/random.c
 		test "$VERBOSE" != no && echo "Saving random seed..."
 		umask 077
-		dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/lib/urandom/random-seed count=1 \
+		dd if=/dev/urandom of=$SAVEDFILE count=1 \
 			>/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "urandom stop: failed."
 		;;
 	*)
-- 
1.7.11





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