ENTROPY_BROKER(1)

🦋 entropy_broker 💅

okay so bestie, you've stumbled into the manual page for entropy_broker — that's ENTROPY_BROKER(1) if you're being fancy about it, living in the User Commands section like the little icon it is. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

entropy_broker — server to gather entropy data from different clients 🎀

like, it's a server, and its whole job is collecting entropy data from a bunch of different clients. that's the vibe. that's the assignment. periodt. 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

entropy_broker v1.0, (C) 2009-2012 by folkert@vanheusden.com

no cap, that's the version and the whole copyright situation right there. 🫶

so here's the tea on how you actually run this thing — it takes these flags:

• -c file — config-file to read 🍓 (this is where it goes looking for its settings)
• -l file — log to file file 📝 (everything it wants to say gets written to file)
• -s — log to syslog 🌈 (same energy, different destination — off to syslog it goes)
• -S — statistics-file to log to 📊 (yep, stats get logged)
• -n — do not fork 🙈 (it stays right there in the foreground, main character energy, no sneaking off into the background)
• -P file — file to write the PID to 🔥 (drops its process ID into file so you can find it later)

fr fr, the -S one is literally just "statistics-file to log to" and we're not adding lore that isn't there. iykyk. 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie — you're now certified in entropy_broker lore 🧚⭐

cute little sign-off: this is entropy_broker, and the page is dated July 2012 — shoutout to ENTROPY_BROKER(1), User Commands, for being the source of all of the above. bye bestie, slay 💅🎀