On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am failing to start apache 2.2.6 on solaris 7. I do not have any >> /dev/[u]random file. >> >> [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 ... >> Any idea how to make apache2 start ? > > > After removing most of the 56 LoadModules and only keeping the > following 5 I were able to start apache2. Thanks to jMCg from > #httpd on freenode for the suggestion on trying to remove most of the modules. > > > (root)@www:/usr/local/apache2# grep ^LoadModule conf/httpd.conf > LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so > LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so > LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so > LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so > LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so FWIW, your problem symptom was related specifically to mod_auth_digest.so. It is great to trim down the set of loaded modules though. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx