Hi, On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 01:12:59PM +0000, Hongyi Zhao wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:52:05 +0100, Gert Doering wrote: > > > A *tar* file is a container, that contains files plus header > > information. > > I also tried the bz2 format just for testing, see the following commands: > > $ diff vpngate_1.0.126.222_tcp_995.ovpn_JP <( bzcat > vpngate_1.0.126.222_tcp_995.ovpn_JP.bz2 ) > $ > > As you can see, there is no differences between the above two files.
Right... but I'm not sure why that is relevant to my comment about
doing this with a *tar* file.
> Still, the process-substitution-based version will failed as follows:
>
> $ sudo openvpn <( bzcat vpngate_1.0.126.222_tcp_995.ovpn_JP.bz2 )
> Options error: In [CMD-LINE]:1: Error opening configuration file: /dev/
> fd/63
> Use --help for more information.
> $
That is interesting. It *should* work, with a non-tar-file, but it seems
we do not like device special files (/dev/fd/63) as config files.
gert
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