From b082b24f9817d0693e61ac6d1446627f1c7e0651 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 05:29:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use dd to better block the data being sent to /dev/random.
 Note: I am not redirecting stdout so that the amount of       data being
 transferred can be seen (22k and 576k currently).

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

diff --git a/etc/rc b/etc/rc
index d73a8e87e905..ca91c420a138 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) > /dev/random 2> /dev/random
+				    dmesg) | /bin/dd of=/dev/random bs=8k
 				( for i in /etc /var/run ; do
 					cd $i ; ls -al ; cat *
-				done ) > /dev/random 2> /dev/random
+				done ) | /bin/dd of=/dev/random bs=8k
 			fi
 		fi
 		;;