[Pkg-exim4-users] regenerating certificates

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 08:29:08PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Thanks to the recent openssl problems I reran exim-gencert (with
> --force).  Is the "unable to write 'random state'" message shown below
> cause for concern?

No idea.

> --------------------------------------------------
> corn:/etc/exim4# /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/examples/exim-gencert --force
> [*] Creating a self signed SSL certificate for Exim!
>     This may be sufficient to establish encrypted connections but for
>     secure identification you need to buy a real certificate!
>     
>     Please enter the hostname of your MTA at the Common Name (CN)
> prompt!
>     
> Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key
> .....++++++
> ..++++++
> unable to write 'random state'
> writing new private key to '/etc/exim4/exim.key'
> -----

Can you try strace -f on exim-gencert to find out which file it is
trying to access?

Greetins
Marc

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