[OE-core] [PATCH] initscripts/urandom: change random-seed directory
Saul Wold
sgw at linux.intel.com
Fri Nov 30 19:24:12 UTC 2012
On 11/30/2012 02:19 AM, Ming Liu wrote:
> /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.
>
Why not create it in the recipe's do_install? Or possibly add it to
volatiles file.
Also talk with Qi Chen about the readonly FS stuff to make sure this
will work.
Sau!
> 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."
> ;;
> *)
>
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