On 11/21/2012 8:37 PM, Kevin VPN wrote:
Hi Dorothea,
Yes, those are the latest instructions to install on Mac OS X, but there
are some caveats.
First, Qt has been upgraded to 4.8 and I don't think the Shrew Soft VPN
client build is completely compatible. I wasn't able to get it working.
Secondly, on one version of OS X, the Shrew Soft VPN client install
accidentally overwrote the symbolic link to the the /etc directory,
making the system unusable after a reboot. (Fortunately I was able to
repair it using the OS X install CD filesystem repair.)
My experiences recently with this build of the client have been so
variable and dangerous that I've stopped installing at this time. I'm
waiting for an updated build.
Kevin,
I actually hadn't noticed that /etc is a symlink to /private/etc. Is it
that way on all versions of OSX or is that just a Lion thing? The pkg
system I use is Iceburg. Initially we started out with the Apple Xcode
packaging software, but it was so awfully buggy I had to go with the
alternative. It's configured to copy the file into /etc so I'm not sure
why it would overwrite the symlink. But if that's the normal directory
structure, it could be installed to /private/etc instead. I'm by no
means an OSX expert, so I'm not sure if that would be the right thing to
do or not.
I've actually been working on the OSX port over the last few days. My
development machine has been upgraded to Mountain Lion and I managed to
build a minimal Qt for the VPN client to link against. The Core/Gui lib
frameworks are then included with the installer now so folks won't have
to install the 230 meg Qt development distribution in the future. The
tun/tap driver is still a pre-requisite. The last thing I wanted to sort
out was the DNS. The /etc/resolv.conf is ignored on later versions of
OSX, so I need to figure out a good programmatic way to configure that
information using the updated resolver mechanism.
In any case, I should have a new dmg file uploaded in a day or two. I
will let the list know when that happens.
Thanks,
-Matthew
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