[SunHELP] any idea...sendmail with TLS

[Nicholas Dronen]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:10:02PM +0100, Srikanta Nayak wrote:
> Dear Freinds,
> 
> any idea about the following errors.
> 
> bash-2.05# telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 fwgw.etomep.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.1/8.12.1; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:32:16
> +0100
>  (MET)
> ehlo fwgw
> 250-fwgw.etomep.net Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-EXPN
> 250-VERB
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-SIZE
> 250-DSN
> 250-ETRN
> 250-DELIVERBY
> 250 HELP
> starttls
> 454 4.3.3 TLS not available after start
> 
>  Error in syslog :
> 
> Dec  7 13:58:53 fwgw sm-mta[4969]: STARTTLS: Error: missing random file
> definition

Perhaps it expects /dev/random or /dev/urandom to exist
and it doesn't, or the sendmail configuration file is
supposed to contain a directive for the random source,
and it doesn't.

Regards,

Nicholas Dronen