EGD
Enable use of the EGD daemon Port with confENVDEF
EGD, which stands for Entropy Gathering Daemon, is a persistent daemon that provides pseudorandom numbers via a Unix socket. Obtaining this daemon and configuring for its use are described in EGD on page 204. To allow code to be included inside sendmail so that it can use this EGD daemon, you must define this EGD compile-time macro:
APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF', `-DEGD=1')
This definition is needed only on machines that lack
/dev/urandom. If you are
running a precompiled sendmail
binary, you can use the -d0.1 debugging command-line switch
(-d0.1 on page 542) to determine
whether EGD support is included (if it appears in
the list, support is included).
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