OpenVPN error problem

Hello all,

When I try to start my openvpn server ir receive this error:

Mon Aug 21 07:27:30 2006 Cannot open
etc/openvpn/openvpn/keys/dh1024.pem for DH parameters:
error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:
error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file
Mon Aug 21 07:27:30 2006 Exiting

Has anyone else had this problem?

My server.conf file points to the correct place where the file is
located.

I successfully started the server the first time. This error happened
after I tried to restart.

I've seen some posts on this subject on other forums, but no solutions.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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> Hello all,
>
> When I try to start my openvpn server ir receive this error:
>
> Mon Aug 21 07:27:30 2006 Cannot open
> etc/openvpn/openvpn/keys/dh1024.pem for DH parameters:

This looks strange

Are you /certain/ that your dh1024.pem file is found in path
/etc/openvpn/openvpn/keys
?

It looks like you either have an extra level of directory structure, or
a typo in that path. I would have expected the path to be
/etc/openvpn/keys

> error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:
> error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file
> Mon Aug 21 07:27:30 2006 Exiting
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?

Nope. And I just finished installing OpenVPN (from source) not 30
minutes ago

> My server.conf file points to the correct place where the file is
> located.
>
> I successfully started the server the first time. This error happened
> after I tried to restart.

Any idea what changed between the first and second runs? Did you edit
the config file any? gen new keys? anything?

> I've seen some posts on this subject on other forums, but no solutions.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

FWIW, My OpenVPN install has paths
/etc/openvpn
and
/etc/openvpn/keys

Check - see what is in /etc/openvpn
If you don't have a directory there called openvpn (with a subdirectory
called keys), then your config file got bollixed up somehow to make the
path to the keys invalid.

HTH

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Lew Pitcher

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Where's the leading slash in the path to the file?

etc/openvpn/openvpn/keys/dh1024.pem for DH parameters:

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Joe Beasley wrote:
> Where's the leading slash in the path to the file?
>
> etc/openvpn/openvpn/keys/dh1024.pem for DH parameters:
>
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Joe Beasley wrote:
> Where's the leading slash in the path to the file?
>
> etc/openvpn/openvpn/keys/dh1024.pem for DH parameters:
>
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Sorry, bad copy and paste on my part. I must have broken something. I
removed & reinstalled and, using the same server.conf and keys
everything seems to be working fine now.