solaris 8 random number seed

[Greg Hamilton]

Hi,

I'm having the popular 'Solaris 8 has no /dev/random' problem.

I'm using openssl-0.9.6b and I don't have the option to upgrade nor can I add the Solaris patch to create /dev/random. (30 odd live servers which I'm not allowed to reboot or mangle if it can be avoided)

I've installed egd and pgrnd packages downloaded from sunfreeware.com.

If I use the openssl command line utility then, provided I've created a .rnd seed file in my home directory, I can create keys, etc. without seeing errors about the random number generator being un-seeded.

The same is not true for Apache with mod_ssl.

I don't know how to let mod_ssl / Apache know where the random number seed file is.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Greg Hamilton