> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of David Touzeau
> Sent: Monday, 04 May, 2009 05:59
> To answer to your question :
> does the index.txt file exist : no
> does serial file exist and contain a serial number, as required :
no
> How to generate index.txt and serial file ?
As I said before:
> See the descriptions of 'database' and 'serial' in man ca .
Copy-and-pasted here for your convenience:
database
the text database file to use. Mandatory. This file must
be present though initially it will be empty.
serial
a text file containing the next serial number to use in
hex. Mandatory. This file must be present and contain a
valid serial number.
To create an empty file on Unix the canonical way is to use touch;
on many shells redirecting output from a null command always works.
Unless you want another value, the smallest hex serial is 01, so:
echo 01 >serial # that's zero one
# with the space; (most?) shells will treat echo 01>serial as
# (overspecified) redirection of fd#1 and no command argument
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