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From: "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com>
References: <4005897d.0403250524.601310c4@posting.google.com> <20040325170824.GD1718@jpradley.jpr.com> <4005897d.0403252229.66875c5a@posting.google.com> <20040326160943.GG16296@jpradley.jpr.com> <4005897d.0404060251.87ef74e@posting.google.com> <g8WdnesMBOlkbe_dRVn-iQ@comcast.com> <4005897d.0404062259.2cc933fd@posting.google.com> <stKdnR8QEaLdTu7dRVn-gw@comcast.com> <20040407160618.GB3335@jpradley.jpr.com> <4005897d.0404080234.2072504f@posting.google.com> <4005897d.0404150623.6c71c20d@posting.google.com> 
Subject: Re: PRNG is not seeded
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:19:59 -0400
Message-ID: <1vWdnef8VqqpK-PdRVn-vg@comcast.com> 

Rob Kottler wrote:
> Nobody can help here with the oss646b patch problem

Just for the record, I have just yesterday installed JPR's openssh binaries
on a 5.0.6 box and it's running fine.

They didn't run at first because I didn't have prngd. I installed prngd from
one I built but I had to supply my own prngd start/stop script and
prngd.conf file which I can't supply since all I did was copy them from a
5.0.7 box.
The source package for prngd actually includes a sample rc start script and
prngd.conf file for sco systems, you could try to use those. The binary I
used and the source package it came from are here
http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/prngd-0.9.27.tar.bz2

What _I_ did though was,
wget -q -O - http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/prngd-0.9.27.tar.bz2 |bzcat |tar
xvf -
cp prngd-0.9.27/prngd /etc/in.prngd
copied /etc/prngd  and /etc/prngd.conf from a 5.0.7 box
inserted the following 4 lines marked "new>" in /etc/tcp starting at line
178

        if [ "$do_remainder" = 1 ]; then

                dspmsg $MF_TCPRC -s $MS_TCPRC $STARTING "Starting TCP
services: "

new>                if [ -x /etc/prngd ]; then
new>                    /bin/su root -c '/etc/prngd restart > /dev/null
2>&1'
new>                    echo "prngd \c"
new>                fi

                if [ -x /etc/inetd ]; then
                        SDD=`who -a | grep -s "^sdd " | grep -v exit`

I also added "|prngd" to the ALLPROCS line near the top.
then /etc/tcp stop ; /etc/tcp start and then prngd was running

(the 5.0.7 /etc/tcp has more than that, I think it makes prngd available in
single-user as well as multi-user, and tries to gracefully handle switching
between the two. I didn't care about that.)

once prngd was running openssh worked fine.

This 5.0.6 box has
oss646b
gnutools5.0.7Kj
gwxlibs1.3.2Ag

You probably only need oss646b, but it won't hurt to install gwxlibs after
that.
gnutools you shouldn't need.

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