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-10.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/jirka-h/haveged/archive/v1.9.14/haveged-1.9.14.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: f756474201bec9a46b41e8712f79468a
Download size: 488 KB
Estimated disk space required: 21 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (with tests)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/haveged
Install Haveged by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static && make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root
user:
make install && mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/haveged-1.9.14 && cp -v README /usr/share/doc/haveged-1.9.14
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-20210110 package (as the
root
user):
make install-haveged
Last updated on 2021-02-19 13:32:42 -0600