Starting sshd:PRNG is not seeded

March 23, 2009 | In: Centos, Linux

You might have received this error when restarting SSHD.

#/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd restart

Stopping sshd: [ OK ]

Starting sshd:PRNG is not seeded

[FAILED]

Here is the fix.

cd /dev/

./MAKEDEV generic

Now try starting SSH. :)

3 Responses to Starting sshd:PRNG is not seeded

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jijin

April 5th, 2010 at 9:31 am

Thanks…

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Scott

April 21st, 2010 at 11:35 am

Another thanks here.

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sreenath

May 29th, 2011 at 2:12 am

thanks a lot!!! really it works..

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