On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 04:17:54PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote: > I'm running CentOS release 4.8. > > For security reasons, I have to modify openssl's ssl.h in /usr/include/openssl/. > > That's easy. But for the new settings to take effect, I have to recompile > openssl. I do have openssl-devel installed. > > How do I recompile? The right way to do this would be to get the openssl SRPM, create a patch against the stock sources that modifies the .h file you need to change and include that patch in the .spec file build process. You'd then generate a custom RPM that would replace the stock RPM. Of course, make sure you _really_ need to do this. You'll now need to track security changes yourself. Ray