Summary: | sys-apps/timer_entropyd-0.2 silently changed behavior | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | rpansky <rpansky> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev> |
Status: | RESOLVED OBSOLETE | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | flameeyes, jstein, proxy-maint |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
rpansky
2012-09-13 14:12:25 UTC
I'm not very keen on modifying sysctls from the init script of an unrelated service. Haveged has a settings for that, but the others leave it to the user to set the sysctl afaict. I would say that adding a log to notify the user that they have to change the value is a better choice. Something along ... timer_entropyd kicks in only when entropy falls below a certain threshold. You may want to modify the threshold's default value to something reasonable (i.e. 1024) by setting the kernel.random.write_wakeup_threshold variable in /etc/sysctl.conf ? The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=733fa820bffc93de9837abb87e033ebf1b0984d9 commit 733fa820bffc93de9837abb87e033ebf1b0984d9 Author: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-05-15 18:27:08 +0000 Commit: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-05-15 18:29:31 +0000 profiles/package.mask: mask timer_entropyd for removal Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/434900 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/552760 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/790413 Signed-off-by: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8398ecce45070226a4c1d2bb372f4b0caa4561d0 commit 8398ecce45070226a4c1d2bb372f4b0caa4561d0 Author: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-06-09 05:29:24 +0000 Commit: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-06-09 05:30:09 +0000 sys-apps/timer_entropyd: treeclean Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/434900 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/552760 Signed-off-by: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> sys-apps/timer_entropyd/Manifest | 1 - .../files/timer_entropyd-0.1-syslog.patch | 28 --------------- .../timer_entropyd/files/timer_entropyd.initd.1 | 13 ------- sys-apps/timer_entropyd/metadata.xml | 11 ------ sys-apps/timer_entropyd/timer_entropyd-0.3.ebuild | 42 ---------------------- 5 files changed, 95 deletions(-) |