Thanks!
I was not aware of the null tun.
The following should fix the problem.
-r 2677:2679
https://svn.openvpn.net/projects/openvpn/contrib/alon/BETA21-userpriv-fixups
Alon.
On 1/25/08, Steven Pritchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trying to build the Fedora package for rc6, I'm getting an error from
> %check, which basically does this:
>
> ./openvpn --config sample-config-files/loopback-client &
> ./openvpn --config sample-config-files/loopback-server
> wait
>
> I'm getting the following error:
>
> Thu Jan 24 14:15:33 2008 /sbin/ip addr flush dev null
> Device "null" does not exist.
> Thu Jan 24 14:15:33 2008 Linux ip flush failed: shell command exited with
> error status: 255
>
> Full build log here:
>
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=370966&name=build.log
>
> Steve
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Index: openvpn/tun.c
===================================================================
--- openvpn/tun.c (revision 2677)
+++ openvpn/tun.c (revision 2679)
@@ -1221,17 +1221,20 @@
if (tt)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_IPROUTE
- char command_line[256];
- /*
- * Flush IP configuration for the device
- */
- openvpn_snprintf (command_line, sizeof (command_line),
+ if (tt->type != DEV_TYPE_NULL)
+ {
+ char command_line[256];
+ /*
+ * Flush IP configuration for the device
+ */
+ openvpn_snprintf (command_line, sizeof (command_line),
"%s addr flush dev %s",
iproute_path,
tt->actual_name
);
- msg (M_INFO, "%s", command_line);
- system_check (command_line, NULL, S_FATAL, "Linux ip flush failed");
+ msg (M_INFO, "%s", command_line);
+ system_check (command_line, NULL, S_FATAL, "Linux ip flush failed");
+ }
#endif
close_tun_generic (tt);
free (tt);
