Redirecting stderr to /dev/null suppresses all errors. Instead use

the new status=none feature to make dd quiet.
OK halex@

diff --git a/etc/rc b/etc/rc
index 6f13b37..48e42b7 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/rc
+++ b/etc/rc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#      $OpenBSD: rc,v 1.426 2014/04/24 15:05:10 tedu Exp $
+#      $OpenBSD: rc,v 1.427 2014/04/25 17:59:53 bluhm Exp $
 
 # System startup script run by init on autoboot
 # or after single-user.
@@ -101,16 +101,14 @@ wsconsctl_conf()
 
 random_seed()
 {
-       {
-               # push the old seed into the kernel
-               dd if=/var/db/host.random of=/dev/random bs=65536 count=1
-               chmod 600 /var/db/host.random
-               # ... and create a future seed
-               dd if=/dev/random of=/var/db/host.random bs=65536 count=1
-               # and create a seed file for the boot-loader
-               dd if=/dev/random of=/etc/random.seed bs=512 count=1
-               chmod 600 /etc/random.seed
-       } > /dev/null 2>&1
+       # push the old seed into the kernel
+       dd if=/var/db/host.random of=/dev/random bs=65536 count=1 status=none
+       chmod 600 /var/db/host.random
+       # ... and create a future seed
+       dd if=/dev/random of=/var/db/host.random bs=65536 count=1 status=none
+       # and create a seed file for the boot-loader
+       dd if=/dev/random of=/etc/random.seed bs=512 count=1 status=none
+       chmod 600 /etc/random.seed
 }
 
 fill_baddynamic()