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

[Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>]

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@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."
>   		;;
>   	*)
>