topic Re: Apache not starting in Operating System - HP-UX

Apache not starting

KPS — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:00:06 GMT

Having issues trying to start Apache on HP-UX 11.23 (IA-64). We're running the following version:

hpuxwsAPACHE B.2.0.59.00

We've turned debug on with LogLevel Debug.

We're getting the following messzge in the Apache error_log.

[Mon Feb 25 11:53:32 2008] [info] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Feb 25 11:53:32 2008] [crit] (19)No such device: Digest: error generating secret: No such device
Configuration Failed

Would anyone have any idea as to what could be the cause?

Thanks,
/KPS

Re: Apache not starting

Ralph Grothe — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:43:43 GMT

Do you have these devices?

# ll /dev/{,u}random
cr--r--r-- 1 bin bin 95 0x000000 Feb 17 14:12 /dev/random
cr--r--r-- 1 bin bin 95 0x000001 Feb 17 14:12 /dev/urandom

Re: Apache not starting

KPS — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:28:00 GMT

I do however, they look like they have a different permission set on them: (See Below)

ll /dev/{,u}random
crw-r--r-- 1 root sys 115 0x000000 Jan 22 11:31 /dev/random
crw-r--r-- 1 root sys 115 0x000001 Jan 22 11:31 /dev/urandom

Re: Apache not starting

Zinky — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:11:35 GMT

What was the fix?

Same issue here:

[crit] (19)No such device: Digest: error generating secret: No such device

in error_log

11.31 H-UX IA64 with the March 2008 OE and bundled HP Apache.

Re: Apache not starting

KPS — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:38:24 GMT

The fix for us was to change the permissions and ownership of the randmon and urandom device files as follows:

cr--r--r-- 1 bin bin 95 0x000000 Feb 17 14:12 /dev/random
cr--r--r-- 1 bin bin 95 0x000001 Feb 17 14:12 /dev/urandom

Our's was not correct with the way our OS was installed.

Hope this helps you in your case scenario...

/KPS

Re: Apache not starting

KPS — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:38:40 GMT

Re: Apache not starting

KPS — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:40:19 GMT

One thing to add is that we're running HPUX version 11.23 and not 11.31 like yourself so not sure if this fix would apply to your os version.