Leland, I might be mistaken, but pulling random data from /dev/urandom will never end - you've given openssl a seed of infinite length (or until you stop the process).
If you want urandom data, pull off a chunk into a file and point to that with -rand, and/or choose some other files that are unlikely to be reproducable. Best regards, Ralph On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Leland T. Snyder wrote: > I'm executing the command to generate a server key according to the RedHat > linux manual, my system is as follows: > > [root@basea1 tmp]# nohup time /usr/bin/openssl genrsa -rand /dev/urandom > 1024 > /tmp/server.key & > ========================================================================== > > While the manual says this might take a long time, it has been running all > night, are athalon processors slow? or did I phrase my command incorrectly? > CPU time is being consumed like crazy. >
