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Re: failure of openvpn to start



PETER EASTHOPE wrote:
> Folk,
> 
> Since my update of lenny last Saturday these lines appear in the syslog.
> 
> Aug 27 10:37:04 joule kernel: tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> Aug 27 10:37:04 joule ovpn-myvpn[5179]: echo up tun0 1500 1544 10.4.0.1 10.4.0.2 init
> Aug 27 10:37:04 joule ovpn-myvpn[5179]: openvpn_execve: external program may not be called due to setting of --script-security level
> Aug 27 10:37:04 joule ovpn-myvpn[5179]: script failed: external program fork failed
> Aug 27 10:37:04 joule ovpn-myvpn[5179]: Exiting
> 
> myvpn.conf follows. 
> 
> What "external program" and what "script-security level" 
> would this refer to?  Any insights?  

> Thanks,        ... Peter E.
> 
> # joule:/etc/openvpn/myvpn.conf
> #
> # Default protocol is udp.
> # Default port is 1194.
> # This is the static address of Dalton.
> remote 142.103.107.137
> dev tun
> # These are the local and remote endpoints of the tunnel.
> ifconfig 10.4.0.1 10.4.0.2
> verb 5
> secret /root/key
> # This is the route to cantor.
> route 172.24.1.2 255.255.255.255
> up 'echo up'
> down 'echo down'
> 

You are using a up and down script.

See /usr/share/doc/openvpn/NEWS.Debian.gz for more info.

Michael

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