The Haveged package contains a daemon that generates an unpredictable stream of random numbers and feeds the /dev/random device.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.9 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/haveged/haveged-1.9.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 015ff58cd10607db0e0de60aeca2f5f8
Download size: 468 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.8 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/haveged
Install Haveged by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root
user:
make install && mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/haveged-1.9.1 && cp -v README /usr/share/doc/haveged-1.9.1
If you want the Haveged daemon
to start automatically when the system is booted, install the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/haveged
init
script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.
make install-haveged
Last updated on 2016-02-21 15:08:48 -0800