On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 03:59:04PM -0400, Diana Moreland wrote:
> I found commands for creating /dev/random and /dev/urandom but when I
> point the SSLRandomseed directive to /dev/random and try to start ssl,
> it hangs for a long time.
>
> I don't know if I just didn't wait long enough (I killed the process
> after waiting 5 minutes) or I've created the /dev/random incorrectly or
> there's something else missing.
>
> Maybe I'm just impatient and it takes longer for the daemon to start
> than I think it should.
>
> Here are the commands I used to created the devices:
>
> mknod -m 644 /dev/random c 1 8
> mknod -m 644 /dev/urandom c 1 9
> chown root:root /dev/random
> /dev/urandom
>
> Can anybody help? Thanks very much.
>
Which os is this? Unless your os has some sort of entropy gathering
mechanism, then there will be no random data on those devices and your
mod_ssl will end up waiting forever to get the random data that it needs.
I usually remember to add a link to the openssl FAQ about random numbers,
but I think that I missed it when answering your question the other day.
Anyway, here it is: http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#6 - it has
a link to an alternative way of getting random data.
vh
Mads Toftum
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