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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

Can I call halt like so:

/bin/busybox/halt

??

Thanks.

---------------------------

To get David's (statically-compiled against uclibc) msmtp
(SSL/TLS) working I have to set up psuedo-random number
capability, which means creating /dev/random/ and /dev/urandom
and initializing them/it at startup and saving random seed at
shutdown.

mknod urandom c 1 9
mknod random c 1 8

(not sure I really need /dev/random, but...)

I've put this in my /etc/rc, right under the top group:

echo "initializing random number generator..."
if [ -f /var/lib/urandom/random-seed ]
then
cat /var/lib/urandom/random-seed >/dev/urandom
fi
rm -f /var/lib/urandom/random-seed
umask 077
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/lib/urandom/random-seed count=1 \
>/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "urandom start: failed."
umask 022

Now I need to figure out how to run this at halt/reboot:

echo -n "Saving random seed..."
umask 077
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/lib/urandom/random-seed count=1 \
>/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "urandom stop: failed."

If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.

/var/lib/urandom/random-seed exists on BL right now, but I'm not
sure where it came from. Maybe fetchmail, which also uses SSL
(but not TLS, I don't think). /usr/bin/file says it has data in
it.

Don't see how it could exist there, because those device files
weren't in BL until I created them. Maybe from the original
install (??)

Thanks,

lee 

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