Re: [mv] validate your credit card

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Victor Nolton (ven@pragakhan.com):
> 
> this is very odd.
> I have pgp setup (whee) I have minivend setup and working.
> 
> Orders come through fine for awhile. then at some point. minivend 
> starts telling people they need to validate their credit card info.
> 
> yet it works fine for awhile.
> 
> when it craps out, I do a restart and it works fine again.
> 
> I dont want to have to write a crontab to restart the server every 30 minutes.
> 
> Minivend 3.14-6  freebsd 4 pgp 5.0i
> 

Try putting in your crontab:

33 3 * * * touch $HOME/.pgp/randseed.bin

In situations like this you should log PGP errors to a file with something
like "pgp ... 2>/tmp/encrypt.error" -- I am guessing your random seed file
is expiring. Usually this takes over a month -- I do this on every server
because it is not unusual for MV to run a month without stopping. 8-)

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