[SunHELP] Re: need help with SSH - Solaris 8

[Will Yardley]

Rob Bains wrote:
> 
> # /etc/init.d/prngd start
> PRNGD entropy-gathering daemon started
> # ps -ef | grep prng
>     root  5760  5484  1 21:55:51 pts/9    0:00 grep prng
>     root  5744     1  2 21:55:45 ?        0:00 /usr/local/sbin/prngd
> /var/spool/
> prngd/pool/prngd-socket
> 
> # /usr/local/sbin/sshd
> Couldn't connect to PRNGD socket "/var/spool/prngd/pool": Socket operation
> on no
> n-socket
> Entropy collection failed and entropy exhausted
> 
> I also created the /var/spool/prngd/pool directory.  Here's in it:

i think pool is supposedto be a socket and not a directory; probably
prngd can't create the socket since a file (your directory) of the same
name exists.

i have:

bacall% cd /var/spool/prngd/
bacall% ls -alF
total 12
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other        512 Feb 13 11:23 ./
drwxr-xr-x   7 root     bin          512 Dec 12 17:05 ../
srwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           0 Feb 13 11:23 pool=
-rw-------   1 root     other       4096 Feb 13 11:23 prngd-seed

notice that pool is a socket.

you might remove the prngd init script entirely and download the
openssh.server one from the sun blueprints site... if you define:
usePRNGD=yes
in this, it will deal with all the prngd stuff for you.

-- 
William Yardley
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