I tried that and it still gives the error. There is a .rnd file now, but it
still is dumping out that "failed to generate" error and won't start.
HELP! :)
Thanks,
JMS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: Apache MOD_SSL and OpenSSL Error
> I am not sure, but most probably you don't have enough random info. What
> you need to do is make sure you run this command from you home directory
> (or directory to which you have read/write perms because the command
> generates .rnd file which holds some random information).
>
> /path-to-openssl-binary/openssl rand -rand some-file 1024 > /dev/null
>
> some-file: you can use any file (binary or text). this is just to seed
> the random number generator, I think. After this, you should have .rnd
> file in your home folder. You should no longer get any 'not enough
> randomness' errors and such.
>
> HTH
>
> Joshua Skains wrote:
>
> > Trying to install Solaris 2.7 with Apache 1.3.12 and latest OpenSSL
> > and MOD_SSL All the packages (IE: OpenSSL, Apache, and MOD_SSL)
> > compile with no errors. The make certificate command works fine. The
> > error: The server dies on startup with the error_log stating that
> > MOD_SSL can not generate the Temp. 512bit RSA private key. Is there a
> > quick fix? Thanks,JMS
>
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