From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 04:49:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43AC016A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:49:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.tele-kom.ru (mx.tele-kom.ru [213.80.148.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E51A43D46 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doublef@tele-kom.ru) Received: (qmail 63350 invoked by uid 555); 20 Jan 2004 15:49:17 +0300 Received: from hal.localdomain (213.80.149.217) by t-k.ru with TeleMail/2 id 1074602955-63277 for ggop@madras.dyndns.org; Tue, 20 Jan 15:49:15 2004 +0300 (MSK) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:53:00 +0300 From: Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko To: Gautam Gopalakrishnan Message-Id: <20040120155300.7b09bae3.doublef@tele-kom.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040120075642.GA9789@madras.dyndns.org> References: <1074583974.162.2.camel@fbtab.h3p.co.za> <20040120075642.GA9789@madras.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Tue__20_Jan_2004_15_53_00_+0300_RTB3UbhGZX7CaZ+s" cc: Hiren cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: problem generating certificate for postfix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:49:22 -0000 --Signature=_Tue__20_Jan_2004_15_53_00_+0300_RTB3UbhGZX7CaZ+s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:56:42 +1100 Gautam Gopalakrishnan probably wrote: > 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. > Or just use dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/postfix/ssl/post.rand count=1 The informative message going to your terminal about how many (512) bytes have been written won't be too much trouble, will it? > hth > Gautam > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- DoubleF Accuracy, n.: The vice of being right --Signature=_Tue__20_Jan_2004_15_53_00_+0300_RTB3UbhGZX7CaZ+s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFADSS3wo7hT/9lVdwRAg+LAJ0V2TeZPYRnxf31FjxsKx3QkMRFKwCfTpBb LcyFw8o+nqGP+FievFHzWOA= =xGmH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__20_Jan_2004_15_53_00_+0300_RTB3UbhGZX7CaZ+s--