why would this occur? I thought openssl was stable. Does it have to do with the key length? Btw, I'm running openbsd/sparc64 just so that you know
Thanks for the quick reply, Vivek On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Damien Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Vivek Ayer wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm not sure why it happens, but I tried running: >> >> openssl genrsa -out /etc/ssl/private/server.key 1024 >> >> over an ssh connection to a web server that I wanted to setup as >> https. Believe it or not, it froze while it was running openssl. Now I >> can't ping it or do anything. Could this be because http was already >> running on the machine? Do I have to disable http before I setup SSL. >> I still can't understand why it would kill the entire inet service. >> >> I'm not near the machine right now, but if there's a way to reboot the >> machine, how would I go about it considering ssh is completely dead. >> Is openssl not supposed to be run over ssh? > > You machine probably crashed while you were running openssl. In all > likelihood, this has zero to do with you running it over ssh. > > When you go to reboot it, see if it has paniced and capture the panic, > "trace" and "ps" output via a serial console, or a digital camera if > you don't have serial hooked up. > > -d
