diff --git a/libexec/save-entropy/save-entropy.sh b/libexec/save-entropy/save-entropy.sh
--- a/libexec/save-entropy/save-entropy.sh
+++ b/libexec/save-entropy/save-entropy.sh
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
 	    Entropy file rotation is aborted.; exit 1; }
 
 for f in saved-entropy.*; do
-	case "${f}" in saved-entropy.\*) continue ;; esac	# No files match
+	case "${f}" in saved-entropy.|saved-entropy.*[!0-9]*) continue ;; esac
 	[ ${f#saved-entropy\.} -gt ${entropy_save_num} ] && unlink ${f}
 done