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dekela

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Registered: 2011-05-18

Posts: 16

openvpn and dns

Hi all

I have installed openvpn following the wiki page and setup the dns resolve script in /usr/share/openvpn/

The problem is that I am getting the following error:

Sun Sep 18 11:41:23 2011 /usr/share/openvpn/update-resolv-conf tun0 1500 1542 172.21.21.20 255.255.255.0 init     
Sun Sep 18 11:41:23 2011 WARNING: Failed running command (--up/--down): could not execute external program

Any idea ?

Thanks,
Dekel

Last edited by dekela (2011-09-18 08:43:30)

lifeafter2am

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Registered: 2009-06-10

Posts: 1,332

Re: openvpn and dns

Hi all

I have installed openvpn following the wiki page and setup the dns resolve script in /usr/share/openvpn/

The problem is that I am getting the following error:

Sun Sep 18 11:41:23 2011 /usr/share/openvpn/update-resolv-conf tun0 1500 1542 172.21.21.20 255.255.255.0 init     
Sun Sep 18 11:41:23 2011 WARNING: Failed running command (--up/--down): could not execute external program

Any idea ?

Thanks,
Dekel

Are you running the command as root?

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dekela

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Re: openvpn and dns

Yes I am.

It is called by openvpn.

I do sudo openvpn config.conf

Dekel

lifeafter2am

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Re: openvpn and dns

Does it have execute permissions?  I am just guessing here. 

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stqn

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Re: openvpn and dns

Maybe this has something to do with

NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables

? Just guessing too...

dekela

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Registered: 2011-05-18

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Re: openvpn and dns

[dekela@arch-macbook ~]$ ls -al /usr/share/openvpn/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root 4096 Sep 18 05:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 179 root root 4096 Sep 18 05:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root 4096 Aug 13 20:31 contrib
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Aug 13 20:31 easy-rsa
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Aug 13 20:31 examples
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 1457 Sep 18 05:44 update-resolve-conf

...
resolv-retry infinite
script-security 2
up /usr/share/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
down /usr/share/openvpn/update-resolv-conf