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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:00:56 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
To:        Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: SSH problems in 4.4-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20011004145902.A48848-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
In-Reply-To: <20011004135659.B4406@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>

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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ceri wrote:

Well, HUPing sshd has the result for me that sshd crashes also
some times. I feel better that someone has the same problem
(I regret this, but last time guys meant I saw white mice ...).

Hope this problem gets fixed soon. Does anything has changed in the
/dev/random device? It seems that the RSA key could not be created
the right way ...

:>On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:41:23PM +0200, Hartmann, O. said:
:>> Dear Sirs.
:>> Again, I have still massive problems with the recent ssh in FreeBSD
:>> 4.4-STABLE as cvsupdated two days ago. I reported this problem when
:>> we were on the way toward FBSD 4.4-RELEASE (4.4-RC).
:>>
:>> On SMP machines, sshd crashes when regenerating the host key after
:>> 3600 or 1800 seconds. The log error is:
:>>
:>> Oct  1 22:15:22 <auth.info> klima sshd[291]: Server listening on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22.
:>> Oct  1 22:15:22 <auth.crit> klima sshd[291]: fatal: rsa_generate_private_key: key generation
:>> failed.
:>
:>I also get this, also only on my SMP system
:>My workaround is to set up a cron entry to HUP sshd every 30 minutes.
:>
:>Ceri
:>
:>--
:>        # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
:>        # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
:>

--
MfG
O. Hartmann

ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de
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