openssh unix dev - Oct 2000 - Installation globbers ssh_prng_cmds

Gidday,

I've just tried installing openssh-2.2.0p1 and found that it globbers my
ssh_prng_cmds file which has been customised from the normally installed
one.  On BSDi 4.0.1 it doesn't detect enough commands for ssh-keygen to be
happy. Most of the commands do actually exist, but I have to specify where
they are.

Could someone please modify the installation scripts to either
backup this file, or not globber it on installation.

For reference the commands which are set to undef and their actual
locations follow (anyone willing to setup config details for BSDi?):

ls	/bin/ls
netstat	/usr/sbin/netstat
arp	/usr/sbin/arp
ifconfig	/sbin/ifconfig
who	/usr/bin/who

On another note, could someone please add a better error to entropy.c,
line 816, "PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting." isn't very
helpful to
tracking down the problem.  It's only from reading the source that I was
able to track it down and fix it.  (I had 14 working entries in
ssh_prng_cmds when I needed 16.)

Otherwise, it's a great piece of software!

Cheers!

--
Andrew Ruthven
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
At Home: andrew at etc.gen.nz
At  Uni: puck at mcs.vuw.ac.nz
At Work: andrew.ruthven at chelmer.co.nz

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> Gidday,
> 
> I've just tried installing openssh-2.2.0p1 and found that it
> globbers my ssh_prng_cmds file which has been customised from the
> normally installed one.  On BSDi 4.0.1 it doesn't detect enough
> commands for ssh-keygen to be happy. Most of the commands do
> actually exist, but I have to specify where they are.
Thanks for the report. The new snapshot should fix this.

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-d

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