Unix Programming - Re: How to check either /var/run/egd-pool or /dev/random is running properly

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Re: How to check either /var/run/egd-pool or /dev/random is running properly

Barry Margolin

2008-03-18, 4:37 am

In article
<80b50eb2-a9dc-4089-8d0d-01c18842097e@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
wong_powah@yahoo.ca wrote:

> How to check either /var/run/egd-pool or /dev/random is running
> properly?

You could read a few thousand values from them and do a statistical
analysis.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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