Bug 308599

Summary:	New ebuild for sys-apps/timer_entropyd-0.1
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Orlitzky <mjo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	ap, basic, gentoo
Priority:	High	Keywords:	EBUILD, InOverlay
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.vanheusden.com/te/
Whiteboard:	sunrise-overlay
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Working ebuild. Init script for timer_entropyd.

Description Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev

2010-03-09 08:08:08 UTC

There was some interest in this expressed on the hardened mailing list. One area that might need review is the init dependencies; I don't know whether or not it's possible to hot/cold/whatever plug the timer source so I'm doing,

  after bootmisc modules isapnp coldplug hotplug

which may or may not make sense.

Comment 1 Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev

2010-03-09 08:09:56 UTC

Created attachment 222779 [details]
Working ebuild.

Comment 2 Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev

2010-03-09 08:11:23 UTC

Created attachment 222781 [details]
Init script for timer_entropyd.

Comment 3 Ed Wildgoose 2010-03-10 23:35:31 UTC

Vote for early inclusion from me...

With SSP enabled the entropy pool is basically zapped to double/triple digits in seconds and on a headless webserver (trying not to touch disk) it's basically not generating much entropy of it's own.  I have tried all the other "entropy demons" currently in portage and none are appropriate except clrngd and that thing chewed 100% CPU for 90 seconds out of every 4 minutes and only generated a negligible amount of entropy.

Comment 4 Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev

2010-03-21 19:21:45 UTC

I just added this to the Sunrise overlay. Once reviewed by a developer, it will find its way to,

http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/reviewed/sys-apps/timer_entropyd

Comment 5 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-08-21 14:31:10 UTC

A bit late to close, but this has been in tree for a while ^^

Thanks Michael for letting me know there was a bug :P