On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:32:20PM -0600, James Yonan wrote: > > > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > > > > > > And the second issue I don't know how to handle is this: > > > - Start openvpn multiple times for a certain configuration. > > > - After the first one is started, the rest will 'claim' to fail > > > (due to port being in use), but they will leave a process running > > > (one each). > > > - Even killing the first (successful) instance, the rest of the > > > processes will remain aroundi (doing nothing, I guess. > > > > I can't reproduce this. > > Sorry, James, my report was a little bogus. This was happening with one > of my configs. I have found the option that triggers this behavior: > > openvpn --dev tap --port 9999 --daemon --plugin > /usr/lib/openvpn/openvpn-auth-pam.so su
Right, that makes more sense. The openvpn-auth-pam plugin forks off a separate process, and this process is probably not exiting correctly when the main process exits with a fatal error. I'll add to bug list. James
