systemd-random-seed-load.service

systemd
Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net
systemd-random-seed-load.service 8
systemd-random-seed-load.service systemd-random-seed-save.service systemd-random-seed Load and save the system random seed at boot and shutdown

`systemd-random-seed-load.service`

`systemd-random-seed-save.service`

`/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-random-seed`

## Description

`systemd-random-seed-load.service` is an early-boot service that restores the random seed of the system. `systemd-random-seed-save.service` is a late-shutdown service that saves the random seed of the system. See random 4 for details. Saving/restoring the random seed across boots increases the amount of available entropy early at boot. On disk the random seed is stored in `/var/lib/random-seed`.

## See Also

systemd 1, random 4