[Pkg-exim4-users] regenerating certificates

Jeroen van Aart
Wed, 21 May 2008 00:22:41 -0000

Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.

This might be of help to the original poster:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ssl/ssl_faq.html

I didn''t get such messages when generating cerificates using the
commands described there. I do recall having this "unable to write
''random state''" when using exim-gencert and just ignored
at the time.

Greetings,
Jeroen