From 1d745d28e084a3788c31b05bf0fad06417cdbf48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:41:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Redirect the stderr of dd to /dev/null so the user doesn't
 see rather weird dd output on bootup as /dev/random is being reseeded.  Also,
 can't this happen in the background since /dev/random blocks?

---
 etc/rc | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/rc b/etc/rc
index ca91c420a138..1c16f05bf350 100644
--- a/etc/rc
+++ b/etc/rc
@@ -203,10 +203,10 @@ yes)
 				# Entropy below is not great,
 				# but better than nothing.
 				(ps -gauxwww; iostat; vmstat; sysctl -a;
-				    dmesg) | /bin/dd of=/dev/random bs=8k
+				    dmesg) | /bin/dd of=/dev/random bs=8k 2>/dev/null
 				( for i in /etc /var/run ; do
 					cd $i ; ls -al ; cat *
-				done ) | /bin/dd of=/dev/random bs=8k
+				done ) | /bin/dd of=/dev/random bs=8k 2>/dev/null
 			fi
 		fi
 		;;