On Fri, Apr 28, 2006, Martin Mller wrote:

> --snip--
> >>
> >>So, where is the DB? I cant find one in the subdirectories unter 
> >>/usr/lib/ssl/ . The files which are in there, are completly empty and 
> >>they dont get a new modificationdate.
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >Should be a file called index.text under demoCA but if openssl.cnf has been
> >modified from the OpenSSL default it could be elsewhere.
> >  
> Ok, I have the index.txt-file. It contains the status of the certs 
> (V/R), the serialnr und so on. The openssl.cnf is modfied by me, the 
> only change a made was that the "dir"-var points to /usr/lib/ssl/.
> 
> Is it right, that the index.txt the same is as ca.crl?
> 
> 

No, a CRL is generated from index.txt but the formats are completely
different.


> --snip---
> >The file newca.crl is created, but whats about the crlnumber?
> >
> >What is in the crlnumber file?
> >  
> 
> Nothing. The file is completly empty. The filesize is 0
> 
> >Seems like there is a bug in the CA.pl script which doesn't automatically
> >create it.
> >
> >The file should contain an even number of hex digits. If a CRL has never 
> >been
> >issued before it should contain 01.
> 
> But when I create it and write 01 in the file, the error about the 
> missing crlnumber is gone. When I revoke a cert, the file inst changed!
> 
> 

It should change when you generate a CRL,it indicates the number the next CRL
will use.

Steve.
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