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From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org>
To: Hiren <hnpatel@autostyle.co.za>
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Subject: Re: problem generating certificate for postfix
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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.

hth
Gautam