Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. =================================================================== RCS file: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5,v rcsdiff: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5,v: warning: Unknown phrases like `commitid ...;' are present. retrieving revision 1.153.2.2 retrieving revision 1.153.2.3 diff -u -p -r1.153.2.2 -r1.153.2.3 --- src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 2013/02/25 00:28:14 1.153.2.2 +++ src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 2014/08/20 00:02:36 1.153.2.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: rc.conf.5,v 1.153.2.2 2013/02/25 00:28:14 tls Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: rc.conf.5,v 1.153.2.3 2014/08/20 00:02:36 tls Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1996 Matthew R. Green .\" All rights reserved. @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd October 2, 2012 +.Dd January 15, 2014 .Dt RC.CONF 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -432,6 +432,26 @@ Checks and enables quotas by running .Xr quotacheck 8 and .Xr quotaon 8 . +.It Sy random_seed +Boolean value. +During boot-up, runs the +.Xr rndctl 8 +utility with the +.Fl L +flag to seed the random number subsystem from an entropy file. +During shutdown, runs the +.Xr rndctl 8 +utility with the +.Fl S +flag to save some random information to the entropy file. +The entropy file name is specified by the +.Sy random_file +variable, and defaults to +.Pa /var/db/entropy-file . +The entropy file must be on a local file system that is writable early during +boot-up (just after the file systems specified in +.Sy critical_filesystems_local +have been mounted), and correspondingly late during shutdown. .It Sy rndctl Boolean value. Runs the