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save-entropy.sh
#!/bin/sh
#
# Copyright (c) 2001-2006 Douglas Barton, DougB@FreeBSD.org
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# $FreeBSD: src/libexec/save-entropy/save-entropy.sh,v 1.3.2.1 2006/09/01 23:58:46 dougb Exp $

# This script is called by cron to store bits of randomness which are
# then used to seed /dev/random on boot.

# Originally developed by Doug Barton, DougB@FreeBSD.org

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin

# If there is a global system configuration file, suck it in.
#
if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then
	. /etc/defaults/rc.conf
	source_rc_confs 2>/dev/null
elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then
	. /etc/rc.conf 2>/dev/null
fi

case ${entropy_dir} in
[Nn][Oo])
	exit 0
	;;
*)
	entropy_dir=${entropy_dir:-/var/db/entropy}
	;;
esac

entropy_save_sz=${entropy_save_sz:-2048}
entropy_save_num=${entropy_save_num:-8}

if [ ! -d "${entropy_dir}" ]; then
	umask 077
	mkdir "${entropy_dir}" || {
	    logger -is -t "$0" The entropy directory "${entropy_dir}" does not \
exist, and cannot be created.  Therefore no entropy can be saved. ;
	    exit 1;}
	/usr/sbin/chown operator:operator "${entropy_dir}"
	chmod 0700 "${entropy_dir}"
fi

umask 377

esn_m1=$(( ${entropy_save_num} - 1 ))
for file_num in `jot $esn_m1 $esn_m1 1`; do
	if [ -e "${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num}" ]; then
		if [ -f "${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num}" ]; then
			new_file=saved-entropy.$(( $file_num + 1 ))
			if [ -e "${entropy_dir}/${new_file}" ]; then
				unlink ${entropy_dir}/${new_file}
			fi
			mv "${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num}" \
			    "${entropy_dir}/${new_file}"
		else
			logger -is -t "$0" \
"${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.${file_num} is not a regular file, and therefore \
it will not be rotated. Entropy file harvesting is aborted."
			exit 1
		fi
	fi
done

dd if=/dev/random of="${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.1" \
    bs="$entropy_save_sz" count=1 2> /dev/null

exit 0



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