This initskript needs a rewrite. It's on my todo list...

With the new kernel /dev/hwrng always exists even if there is no hardware present, so there are more things to do.

Normal rngd will startet by udev if it found hardware but it was not startet if only rdrand was there.

So the script need to fix the pid's, check if rngd is already running and should only start it if rdrand was present and not already running...

Arne

On 2018-09-11 21:55, Peter Müller wrote:

Hello,

I support this patch. Quite a while ago, there was a similar one on this list but was not merged eventually.

Michael stated it should be fixed in the upstream channel (which is basically right) - however, looking at our recent trouble with this software, I doubt it makes much sense to delay this until it reached the origin repository.

Best regards, Peter Müller

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Hi,

Since https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=commitdiff;h=fd0a0384f07b399e9cb4... 'rngd' is running again with much higher values. STATUS / ENTROPY shows RUNNING. Thanks! ;-)

But '/var/run/rngd.pid' is created with wrong rights (0600). Therefore, STATUS / SERVICES tells me 'rngd' is stopped.

The suggested fix checks whether '/var/run/rngd.pid' exists and sets rights accordingly.

Best, Matthias

Signed-off-by: Matthias Fischer matthias.fischer@ipfire.org

src/initscripts/system/rngd | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/initscripts/system/rngd b/src/initscripts/system/rngd index 91b70a7b4..8fe5c9363 100644 --- a/src/initscripts/system/rngd +++ b/src/initscripts/system/rngd @@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ case "${1}" in start) boot_mesg "Starting Random Number Generator Daemon..." loadproc /usr/sbin/rngd --quiet

• if [ -f "/var/run/rngd.pid" ]; then
  

• 	chmod 644 /var/run/rngd.pid
  

• fi
  

  ;;

  stop)