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authorMichael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>2013-01-09 06:57:13 +0100
committerMichael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>2013-01-09 06:57:13 +0100
commit50816ce74432f24135aefc590361bbb8ccfc71f1 (patch)
tree9ee348a2da8385bb91e182d1feb1b38399b9a7b0 /debian/apt.cron.daily
parent291f47791d2c0d8521922c8d3090e2aa6f099d5b (diff)
* 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
Diffstat (limited to 'debian/apt.cron.daily')
-rw-r--r--debian/apt.cron.daily2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
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"