From 50816ce74432f24135aefc590361bbb8ccfc71f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Vogt Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 06:57:13 +0100 Subject: * debian/apt.cron.daily: - when reading from /dev/urandom, use less entropy and fix a rare bug when the random number chksum is less than 1000. Closes: #695285 --- debian/apt.cron.daily | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'debian/apt.cron.daily') diff --git a/debian/apt.cron.daily b/debian/apt.cron.daily index 5c00f22db..27f08dd4a 100644 --- a/debian/apt.cron.daily +++ b/debian/apt.cron.daily @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ random_sleep() fi if [ -z "$RANDOM" ] ; then # A fix for shells that do not have this bash feature. - RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -c"1-5") + RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=2 count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -c"1-5") fi TIME=$(($RANDOM % $RandomSleep)) debug_echo "sleeping for $TIME seconds" -- cgit v1.2.3