[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#455230: Bug#455230: /etc/init.d/urandom: please consider doign dmesg > /dev/random at startup

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

tag 455230 fixed-upstream
thanks

where "upstream" here is the kernel itself.  Fixed in Linux kernel
3.2.26, 3.0.41, 3.4.9, 3.5.2, 3.6.  The fix will eventually flow down to
the 3.2-based Wheezy kernel and to unstable.

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Sun, 09 Dec 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > during a discussion on the LKML, it was suggested to do "dmesg >
> > > dev/random" in the startups scrips of a distribution.  Please
> > > consider doing this in Debian.

It does a lot of the above, now.  It is _not_ the same as doing dmesg |
gzip > /dev/random, though, so we might want to do it anyway.

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  Henrique Holschuh