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16e9f408fa9a9626059bdd6c89dc175e06b9e976Lennart Poettering <refentryinfo>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering </refentryinfo>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering <refentrytitle><application>genrandom</application></refentrytitle>
16e9f408fa9a9626059bdd6c89dc175e06b9e976Lennart Poettering <refname><application>genrandom</application></refname>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering <refpurpose>generate a file containing random data</refpurpose>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering <holder>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")</holder>
6866780115a7c0af034f287d965f4bf6b02c1e6dZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <refsynopsisdiv>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering <arg choice="req"><replaceable class="parameter">size</replaceable></arg>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering <arg choice="req"><replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable></arg>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering </cmdsynopsis>
16e9f408fa9a9626059bdd6c89dc175e06b9e976Lennart Poettering </refsynopsisdiv>
16e9f408fa9a9626059bdd6c89dc175e06b9e976Lennart Poettering generates a file containing a specified quantity of psuedo-random
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering data, which can be used as a source of entropy for other commands
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering on systems with no random device.
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering <variablelist>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering <varlistentry>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering The size of the file, in kilobytes, to generate.
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering </varlistentry>
16e9f408fa9a9626059bdd6c89dc175e06b9e976Lennart Poettering <varlistentry>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering The file name into which random data should be written.
16e9f408fa9a9626059bdd6c89dc175e06b9e976Lennart Poettering </varlistentry>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering </variablelist>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering <citerefentry>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering <refentrytitle>rand</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering </citerefentry>,
16e9f408fa9a9626059bdd6c89dc175e06b9e976Lennart Poettering <citerefentry>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering <refentrytitle>arc4random</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering </citerefentry>
16e9f408fa9a9626059bdd6c89dc175e06b9e976Lennart Poettering <para><corpauthor>Internet Systems Consortium</corpauthor>
f801968466fed39d50d410b30ac828c26722cc95Lennart Poettering - Local variables: