on 3-3-2008 8:39 PM Karl Denninger spake the following:
Stephen Harris wrote:
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:22:20PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
Allegedly openssl (which is loaded) provides this, but...
./configure --with-openssl
And have you installed openssl-devel?
(well, clearly the answer is no because you haven't actually paid any attention to anything I've written)
% yum whatprovides libcrypto.a [snip] openssl-devel.i386 0.9.7a-43.17.el4_6.1 c4-local Matched from: /usr/lib/libcrypto.a
openssl-devel.i586 0.9.7a-43.17.el4_6.1 c4-local Matched from: /usr/lib/libcrypto.a
You can lead a horse to water....
Hmmmm... trying man..... heh, its my first Linux. Whadda 'ya want, FreeBSD since the mid 90s.
("User" installations on FreeBSD gets you standard development libraires and the C compiler. I am beginning to understand that CentOS looks at this more like Windows - the "base load" is in fact just a runtime with NOTHING development-related in it....)
But it isn't always prudent to have a full development environment on a "server". The safe bet is to have a devel box as far as it can be from the internet, and servers only have what they need to function. If a server is compromised, no devel means it is at least slightly more difficult to compromise the system. The more on a server, the more "potential" security holes that might sneak in.