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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:53:00 +0300
From:      Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru>
To:        Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: problem generating certificate for postfix
Message-ID:  <20040120155300.7b09bae3.doublef@tele-kom.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20040120075642.GA9789@madras.dyndns.org>
References:  <1074583974.162.2.camel@fbtab.h3p.co.za> <20040120075642.GA9789@madras.dyndns.org>

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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:56:42 +1100
Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> probably wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:32:54AM +0200, Hiren wrote:
> > greetings all
> > i am in the process of generating a certificate for postfix
> > i am currently trying to run the following command:
> > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/postfix/ssl/post.rand count=1 2>/dev/null
> > the error i get is:
> > dd: unknown operand 2
> 
> I guess you're using csh or tcsh. Try using /bin/sh, bash or ksh.
> 

Or just use

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/postfix/ssl/post.rand count=1

The informative message going to your terminal about how many (512)
bytes have been written won't be too much trouble, will it?

> hth
> Gautam
> 
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-- 
DoubleF
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	The vice of being right

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