On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:06:17AM -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: > I'm trying to connect to a VPN service via openVPN. When I try to connect > (via network manager's gui) I get an error saying the openvpn service is not > running. I do not see any errors in messages, syslog, daemon.log or dmesg > about this. When I manually start the service it just says that it is > starting, but nothing else. However running ps -ef shows no new processes. > Stopping the openvpn service makes no difference in the process list either. > I've restarted network-manager and even rebooted to ensure everything is > loading properly, but to no avail. > > To get to my current state i installed: > > sudo apt-get install openvpn network-manager-openvpn > network-manager-openvpn-gnome > > I created the VPN connection with the instructions from the VPN service, but > since I can't get the OpenVPN software to even run I don't know what help > they can provide.
Try adding the following lines to your server's vpn *.conf file: verb 3 log-append /tmp/openvpn.log and restart the openvpn service. If the file doesn't appear then you may have a syntax error in your config. If the file does appear, check it for errors.
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