EB_CLIENT_LINUX_KERNEL(1)

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💖 EB_CLIENT_LINUX_KERNEL(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a User Commands situation, the manual page for eb_client_linux_kernel, and it's about to be your new fave little helper. section one, let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

eb_client_linux_kernel — send entropy data to /dev/random

like. it feeds the vibes. the random vibes. 🔥

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so eb_client_linux_kernel is v1.0, and it's (C) 2009-2012 by folkert@vanheusden.com — shoutout to the icon who made it, we love a legend 💅

the whole point, bestie: to keep the entropy buffer of the local linux kernel filled-up, you start client_linux_kernel as a root user. yes, root. main character energy but with privileges 👑

and now, the trick that lowkey changes everything: if you want the kernel buffers to be filled much earlier — because the default is when it only has 128 bits left, which is kinda cutting it close ngl — then you write a new value to:

/proc/sys/kernel/random/write_wakeup_threshold

E.g. 512. 🌈

then, the options, and there aren't that many so we're just listing them right here:

  • -i host — the eb-host to connect to
  • -l file — log to file 'file'
  • -s — log to syslog
  • -n — do not fork
  • -P file — file to write the PID to
  • -X file — file to read the password from
ngl bestie, this one genuinely wants root and it genuinely wants you to be careful. no cap. 🙈

that's the whole page, periodt. 🦋

this was eb_client_linux_kernel, from the July 2012 era of the manual, and you're all caught up. go fill that entropy buffer, you absolute icon 🎀✨💖

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