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.TH LSH-MAKE-SEED 1 "Jul 05 2002" lsh-make-seed "lsh manuals"
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.SH NAME
 lsh-make-seed \- program to generate a yarrow random seed file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B lsh-make-seed
.RI [ options ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B lsh-make-seed
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
.PP
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\fBlsh-make-seed\fP is a program that creates an initial random seed file for
the yarrow pseudo-randomness-generator used by both the lsh server and client.
.SH OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
A summary of options is included below.
For a complete description, see the Info files.
.TP
.B \-f, \-\-force
Overwrite any existing seed file.
.TP
.B \-o, \-\-output\-file=\fIfilename\fP
Output random seed to \fIfilename\fP. The default is to output to
~/.lsh/seed-file.
.TP
.B \-\-server
Save seed file where the lsh server expects it (eg.
/var/spool/lsh/yarrow-seed-file).
.TP
.B \-\-sloppy
Generate seed file even if we can't collect a good amount of randomness from
the environment.
.TP
.B \-\-debug
Print huge amounts of debug information.
.TP
.B \-q, \-\-quiet
Suppress all warnings and diagnostic messages.
.TP
.B \-\-trace
Print a detailed program trace.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-verbose
Print verbose diagnostic messages
.TP
.B \-?, \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-\-usage
Show a short usage message.
.TP
.B \-V, \-\-version
Show version of program.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR lsh (1),
.BR lshd (8).
.BR
The programs are documented fully by
.IR "Lsh" ,
available via the Info system.
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).