[lug] OpenVPN no Open

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:43:09 -0500
gordongoldin at aim.com wrote:

>  I upgraded from FC6 to FC7
> I can't start openVPN.? It looks like root owns the pid directory.
> Nobody else has write permission.
> I can start it by hand as root: openvpn server.conf
> Works fine.
> I've upgraded all the way from FC3 - never had this problem before.
> Ideas?
> I did try making /var/run/openvpn owned by user:group openvpn
> Didn't work.
> 
> # service openvpn start
> Starting openvpn:????????????????????????????????????????? [FAILED]
> 
> Open error on pid file /var/run/openvpn/server.pid: Permission denied
> (errno=13)
> 
> # rm /var/run/openvpn/server.pid
> rm: cannot remove `/var/run/openvpn/server.pid': No such file or
> directory # cd /var/run/openvpn
> # ls -la
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x? 2 root root 4096 2007-04-26 08:46 .
> drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2007-11-20 15:09 ..

Do you have selinux enabled? 

Is there anything pertaining to this error at the end
of /var/log/audit/audit.log ?

If so, you may need to 'touch /.autorelabel' and reboot in order to fix
the selinux contexts on all your files. 

kevin

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