ekey-egd-linux(8)

💖 NAME 💖

ekey-egd-linux — the EGD Entropy Daemon ✨ (yes bestie, that's the egd-linux page from the System Manager's Manual, we're doing this 💅)

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ekey-egd-linux [ -H hostip ] [ -p portno ] [ -b blocks ] [ -s shannons ]
[ -D pidfile ] [ -r time ] [ -v ] [ -h ]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so picture this: ekey-egd-linux is a daemon 🧚 and what it does is it connects to an EGD server, reads that sweet sweet entropy, and places it right into the kernel's pool. That's it. That's the whole vibe. Feeding the kernel, no cap. 🌈

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -H hostip — sets the host IP address you wanna connect to 🫶
• -p portno — sets the port number you wanna connect to 💅
• -b blocks — sets how many 1024 bit blocks to request each time 📦
• -s shannons — sets the number of shannons per byte ⭐
• -D pidfile — tells it the name <and> path of the file used to record the ekey-egd-linux process ID 🎀
• -r time — sets the time between reconnect attempts. The default is 0, and that default makes the daemon exit immediately after the initial connection attempt — no additional connection attempts, none, periodt 😭. A non zero value is the number of seconds the daemon will wait between connection attempts ⏳
• -h — prints the usage text and exits 🙈
• -v — prints the version number and exits 💜

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

ekeyd(8), ekey-rekey(8), ekey-setkey(8) 🔥

💌 AUTHOR 💌

Copyright © 2009 Simtec Electronics. All rights reserved. 👑

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. ✍️

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. 💀

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one is from the System Manager's Manual, dated 19th July 2009 🎂 — shoutout to that day, she ate and left no crumbs 🍓 bye bye, ily, go read your entropy 🧚💖