From 050680aa63d60f4c978e3a6c165f06f601cf6708 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Sommer <robin@icir.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 19:25:41 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Adding new environment variable BRO_SEED_FILE to set the seed
 file for the random number generator.

This works like the corresponding command line option but is more
convinient when writing tests as it can be set in btest.cfg.
---
 src/main.cc | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main.cc b/src/main.cc
index b09f93d2a8..f887d8434c 100644
--- a/src/main.cc
+++ b/src/main.cc
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ void usage()
 	fprintf(stderr, "    $BROPATH                       | file search path (%s)\n", bro_path());
 	fprintf(stderr, "    $BRO_PREFIXES                  | prefix list (%s)\n", bro_prefixes());
 	fprintf(stderr, "    $BRO_DNS_FAKE                  | disable DNS lookups (%s)\n", bro_dns_fake());
+	fprintf(stderr, "    $BRO_SEED_FILE                 | file to load seeds from (not set)\n");
 
 	exit(1);
 	}
@@ -341,7 +342,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
 	char* bst_file = 0;
 	char* id_name = 0;
 	char* events_file = 0;
-	char* seed_load_file = 0;
+	char* seed_load_file = getenv("BRO_SEED_FILE");
 	char* seed_save_file = 0;
 	int seed = 0;
 	int dump_cfg = false;