On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 00:58 -0400, Eric B. wrote: > On 06/21/2011 12:53 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 23:35 -0400, Eric B. wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am fairly new to the NetworkManager, and am trying to understand how > >> to enable additional debug information for a failing OpenVPN connection. > >> > >> I've installed the OpenVPN plugin, but I am not getting enough > >> information in /var/log/messages and would like to see if there is a way > >> to enable additional information. Is there some configuration flag > >> somewhere that I can enable for this? > > > > killall -TERM nm-openvpn-service > > /path/to/nm-openvpn-service --debug --persist > > > > that works for newer versions of nm-openvpn (like 0.8.1 and later); for > > earlier versions you may need to: > > > > killall -TERM nm-openvpn-service > > OPENVPN_DEBUG=1 /path/to/nm-openvpn-service --persist > > > > where of course /path/to/ gets replaced with where that binary lives; > > for non-Debian systems it's usually /usr/libexec otherwise I'm not sure > > where it lives. > > > > Dan > > > Thanks for the quick response. Am running Fedora 14 and have > NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.1-1.fc14.i686 installed. > > When I try your suggestions, I get the following messages (non-root > account): > > [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ killall -TERM > nm-openvpn-servicenm-openvpn-service: no process found
That's fine, seems the service isn't running which is normal if the VPN is disconnected. > [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service --debug --persist > ** (process:8434): WARNING **: <WARN> constructor(): Connection > ":1.134" is not allowed to own the service > "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn" due to security policies in the > configuration file Oops; you need to run it as root via something like: sudo /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service --debug --persist Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
