On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Vivek Ayer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure why it happens, but I tried running: > > openssl genrsa -out /etc/ssl/private/server.key 1024 > > over an ssh connection to a web server that I wanted to setup as > https. Believe it or not, it froze while it was running openssl. Now I > can't ping it or do anything. Could this be because http was already > running on the machine? Do I have to disable http before I setup SSL. > I still can't understand why it would kill the entire inet service. > > I'm not near the machine right now, but if there's a way to reboot the > machine, how would I go about it considering ssh is completely dead. > Is openssl not supposed to be run over ssh?
You machine probably crashed while you were running openssl. In all likelihood, this has zero to do with you running it over ssh. When you go to reboot it, see if it has paniced and capture the panic, "trace" and "ps" output via a serial console, or a digital camera if you don't have serial hooked up. -d
