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recovery call: since we operate under set -e, make sure that shred failing doesn't exit #1276

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recovery call: since we operate under set -e, make sure that shred failing doesn't exit #1276

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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion initrd/etc/functions
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Expand Up @@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ recovery() {

# Remove any temporary secret files that might be hanging around
# but recreate the directory so that new tools can use it.
shred -n 10 -z -u /tmp/secret/* 2> /dev/null

#safe to always be true. Otherwise "set -e" would make it exit here
shred -n 10 -z -u /tmp/secret/* 2> /dev/null || true
rm -rf /tmp/secret
mkdir -p /tmp/secret

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