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This message comes about a year after the system is first installed: <pre> ################# SSL Certificate Warning ################ Certificate for hostname 'ramandu.williams.localnet', in file (or by nickname): /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt The certificate needs to be renewed; this can be done using the 'genkey' program. Browsers will not be able to correctly connect to this web site using SSL until the certificate is renewed. ########################################################## Generated by certwatch(1)</pre> The reference to 'genkey' is cryptic and really should have a more specific command, but ... The correct command sequence to generate the new certificate is (as root): genkey --days 9999 --cacert 'hostname' cd /etc/pki/tls/certs rm localhost.crt ln -s `hostname`.crt localhost.crt
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