From: Scott LePage [Scott.Lepage@ihatespam.compaq.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:38 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: MOD_SSL.EXE_ALPHA is missing in CSWS V1.0-1 distribution

Hi Martin,

I talked to the SSL guys and MOD_SSL.EXE_ALPHA wasn't part of the
V1.0 or V1.0-1 kits.  It is built into the core Apache module.  Once you go
to T1.1 (V1.1) it'll show up as a loadable image.

The error you're getting seems to be related to lack of entropy when
generating the random seed.  You can fix by providing a large enough
file in the SSLRandomSeed directive of MOD_SSL.CONF.
For example:

    $ show system /full /output=file.txt

Then change the line in MOD_SSL.CONF to:

    SSLRandomSeed startup file:/<path>/file.txt

Make sure "file.txt" is readable by user APACHE$WWW.


Scott
CSWS development team


"Martin Vorlaender" <martin.vorlaender@pdv-systeme.de> wrote in message
news:9bmu2c$a1enu$1@ID-56200.news.dfncis.de...
> Hi all,
>
> a word of warning:
>
> The V1.0-1 distribution is missing the MOD_SSL.EXE_ALPHA image
> (of course, I've already thrown away the V1.0 kit...).
>
> As the one from the T1.1 distribution doesn't seem to work, the only
> workaround seemed to be to disable mod_ssl (set it to NO in
> APACHE$CONFIG, remove the include of MOD_SSL.CONF in HTTPD.CONF) -
> but no:
>
> [Thu Apr 19 14:48:53 2001] [error] mod_ssl: Init: Failed to generate
> temporary 512 bit RSA private key
>
> <sigh>
>
> cu,
>   Martin
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>