Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Do some file/directory tests before really starting openvpn

2011-11-25 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/11/11 23:10, David Sommerseth wrote: > OpenVPN can handle over 30 different files and directories, and it is > easy to misconfigure some of them. In many situations OpenVPN will > even start running, even with a wrong file path or without the

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Do some file/directory tests before really starting openvpn

2011-11-25 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:10:26PM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: > This patch tries to catch as many of these files as soon as possible, kind of > to "smoke-test" the files and directories to avoid the most likely errors. ACK, both on the concept and the implementation, though I didn't verif

[Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Do some file/directory tests before really starting openvpn

2011-11-24 Thread David Sommerseth
OpenVPN can handle over 30 different files and directories, and it is easy to misconfigure some of them. In many situations OpenVPN will even start running, even with a wrong file path or without the proper permissions, and then it will complain much later on. In some cases the error being seen a