I am failing to start apache 2.2.6 on solaris 7. I do not have any /dev/[u]random file. I am running prngd for entropy (root)@www:/usr/local/apache2# ps -ef | grep prng root 12631 1 0 21:53:46 ? 0:07 /usr/local/sbin/prngd /var/spool/prngd/pool (root)@www:/usr/local/apache2# ls -al /var/spool/prngd/pool srwxrwxrwx 1 root other 0 Mar 29 21:53 /var/spool/prngd/pool (root)@www:/usr/local/apache2# file /var/spool/prngd/pool /var/spool/prngd/pool: socket (root)@www:/usr/local/apache2# ./bin/httpd -v Server version: Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) Server built: Nov 29 2007 04:50:40 (root)@www:/usr/local/apache2# tail -f logs/error_log Configuration Failed [Tue Mar 30 19:59:48 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Tue Mar 30 19:59:48 2010] [crit] (2)No such file or directory: Digest: error generating secret: No such file or directory Configuration Failed [Tue Mar 30 20:01:10 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Tue Mar 30 20:01:10 2010] [crit] (2)No such file or directory: Digest: error generating secret: No such file or directory Configuration Failed [Tue Mar 30 20:25:33 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Tue Mar 30 20:25:33 2010] [crit] (2)No such file or directory: Digest: error generating secret: No such file or directory Configuration Failed My syntax looks ok (root)@www:/usr/local/apache2# ./bin/httpd -t Syntax OK (root)@www:/usr/local/apache2# ./bin/httpd -S VirtualHost configuration: wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers: _default_:8443 www.example.net (/usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf:8) Syntax OK Here is my httpd.conf (root)@www:/usr/local/apache2# cat conf/httpd.conf ServerRoot "/usr/local/apache2" Listen 8080 LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so LoadModule authn_dbm_module modules/mod_authn_dbm.so LoadModule authn_anon_module modules/mod_authn_anon.so LoadModule authn_dbd_module modules/mod_authn_dbd.so LoadModule authn_default_module modules/mod_authn_default.so LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so LoadModule authz_dbm_module modules/mod_authz_dbm.so LoadModule authz_owner_module modules/mod_authz_owner.so LoadModule authz_default_module modules/mod_authz_default.so LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so LoadModule dbd_module modules/mod_dbd.so LoadModule dumpio_module modules/mod_dumpio.so LoadModule ext_filter_module modules/mod_ext_filter.so LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so LoadModule log_forensic_module modules/mod_log_forensic.so LoadModule logio_module modules/mod_logio.so LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mod_mime_magic.so LoadModule cern_meta_module modules/mod_cern_meta.so LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so LoadModule ident_module modules/mod_ident.so LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so LoadModule unique_id_module modules/mod_unique_id.so LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so LoadModule version_module modules/mod_version.so LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so LoadModule asis_module modules/mod_asis.so LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so LoadModule imagemap_module modules/mod_imagemap.so LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so <IfModule !mpm_netware_module> User daemon Group daemon </IfModule> ServerAdmin www@xxxxxxxxxxx ServerName www.example.net DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs" <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all </Directory> <Directory "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <IfModule dir_module> DirectoryIndex index.html </IfModule> <FilesMatch "^\.ht"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy All </FilesMatch> ErrorLog logs/error_log LogLevel warn <IfModule log_config_module> LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common <IfModule logio_module> LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio </IfModule> CustomLog logs/access_log common </IfModule> <IfModule alias_module> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/" </IfModule> <IfModule cgid_module> </IfModule> <Directory "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> DefaultType text/plain <IfModule mime_module> TypesConfig conf/mime.types AddType application/x-compress .Z AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz </IfModule> Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf SSLRandomSeed startup builtin SSLRandomSeed connect builtin Here is my conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf (root)@www:/usr/local/apache2# cat conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf Listen 8443 AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl .crl SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin SSLSessionCache "shmcb:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_scache(512000)" SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300 SSLMutex "file:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_mutex" <VirtualHost _default_:8443> DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs" ServerName www.example.net:8443 ServerAdmin www@xxxxxxxxxxx ErrorLog "/usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log" TransferLog "/usr/local/apache2/logs/access_log" SSLEngine on SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL SSLCertificateFile "/usr/local/apache2/conf/server.crt" SSLCertificateKeyFile "/usr/local/apache2/conf/server.key" <FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$"> SSLOptions +StdEnvVars </FilesMatch> <Directory "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin"> SSLOptions +StdEnvVars </Directory> BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" \ nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \ downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 CustomLog "/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_request_log" \ "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b" </VirtualHost> Any idea how to make 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