I'm using Solaris 2.7 and I've had the same problem as below and tried
creating the random file in $HOME/.rnd and still get the same error
message. has anyone else had any success with this? thankyou.
bill
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2000, Dave Kimberley wrote:
>
> > Verifying password - Enter PEM pass phrase:
> > unable to write key
> > 15808:error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:prng not
> > seeded:md_rand.c:470:
> > mkcert.sh:Error: Failed to encrypt RSA private key
> > *** Error code 1
> > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `certificate'
> > Current working directory /home/dave/WebServer/apache_1.3.12/src
> > *** Error code 1
> > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `certificate'
> >
> > On checking the openssl site it says the application using openssl is not
> > seeding the random number generator correctly. What do I do?
>
> Create a $HOME/.rnd file with some initial random data/garbish.
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