[NTLUG:Discuss] Newbie Question on Upgrades....

[Michael Patrick]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 07:01:38AM -0500, Douglas King wrote:
> I have been trying to upgrade the OpenSSL in my servers.  I currently have 
> the 0.o.6b version, and have been trying to upgrade it to the current 
> version because of vulnerabilities.  I have the tarball, and have done the 
> tar xvfz , etc....then the ./config, make, make test, and finally the make 
> install.  It goes through it's thing, then when you go back to check 
> it....the version still shows the old version....HELP!

Douglas,

What distro are you using?  If your distro installed OpenSSL as part of the normal install then you might have two copies of OpenSSL installed.  My machine is a Redhat 7.2 which had OpenSSL so I have

/usr/bin/openssl

after doing a tarball install I would also have

/usr/local/bin/openssl <-- the new one from the tarball

If you do

whereis openssl   <---- will show you where openssl is
which openssl     <---- will show you which one is occuring first in your search path


it should show you where on your system it is.  My guess it that you have currently two versions installed so when you run

openssl version

it is probably finding the older, distro installed version.  You can either try replacing the distro version with your compiled version or look into your distro's update procedure.

Michael