[SunHELP] Apache-SSL

[Matthew Rushton]

Hi Raghav, 

Put the line

SSLRandomSeed startup /dev/random

in your httpd.conf for Apache. This should get it to work though I use egd to
generate the random data so use "SSLRandomSeed startup egd:/var/tmp/edg.tmp"

Regards,  

MatthewR

Quoting sunhelp-request at sunhelp.org:

> Date: 16 Mar 2001 06:54:36 MST
> From: Raghav Sood <4sud at usa.net>
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] Apache-SSL
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> 
> hi
> i am trying to get Apache-SSL working. got the thing compiled but i
> cann't
> generate the certificate. i am using solaris 2.6 on e220. also
> installed
> 105710-01 patch to get /dev/random. and also set $RANDFILE to
> /dev/random. but
> every time i try to generate the certificate i get an error saying : 
>     unable to load 'random state'
>     This means that the random number generator has not been seeded
>      with much random data.
> 
> any idea why so????
> 
> regards
> raghav sood
> 
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