Openssl is not working, and directory /etc/ssl is missing <p>We are working on a red hat linux server, and we can apply <code>openssl version</code> and <code>openssl</code> will get you inside openssl shell-like <code>Openssl&gt;</code></p> <p>But there is no directory <code>/etc/ssl/</code> and we are getting the following failure when we try to connect:</p> <pre><code>[&lt;username&gt;@&lt;pc name&gt; etc]$ openssl s_client -port 31114 -host &lt;ipaddress&gt; -ssl3 -quiet -crlf 904:error:1409E0E5:SSL routines:SSL3_WRITE_BYTES:ssl handshake failure:s3_pkt.c:530: </code></pre> <p>It is not working, nothing is working in openssl on the server? what shall we do?</p> <p>we are sure that openssl is installed:</p> <pre><code>[root@&lt;pc name&gt; ~]# yum list |grep openssl This system is not registered with RHN. RHN support will be disabled. openssl.i686 0.9.8e-12.el5 installed openssl.x86_64 0.9.8e-12.el5 installed openssl-devel.i386 0.9.8e-12.el5 installed openssl-devel.x86_64 0.9.8e-12.el5 installed openssl097a.i386 0.9.7a-9.el5_2.1 installed openssl097a.x86_64 0.9.7a-9.el5_2.1 installed </code></pre> <p>Thank you in advance.</p>