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From: "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com> References: <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> <1vWdnef8VqqpK-PdRVn-vg@comcast.com> <20040415173412.GB6244@jpradley.jpr.com>
Subject: Re: PRNG is not seeded
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:46:53 -0400 Message-ID: <us2dnbPXZtYve-Pd4p2dnA@comcast.com>

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
> Brian K. White typed (on Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:19:59PM -0400):
>> 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.
>
> Say what?  I certainly see prngd files in my tarball...

huh? ... Ah I see...
I must have installed this file openssh3.8.1p1.tar.bz2
which has only ssh
instead of this file openssh4osr5.tar.bz2
which has both ssh and prngd

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