Re: Howto debug OpenVPN connection?

["Eric B." <ebenze hotmail com>]

On 06/21/2011 12:53 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 23:35 -0400, Eric B. wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am fairly new to the NetworkManager, and am trying to understand how
> > to enable additional debug information for a failing OpenVPN connection.
> >
> > I've installed the OpenVPN plugin, but I am not getting enough
> > information in /var/log/messages and would like to see if there is a way
> > to enable additional information.  Is there some configuration flag
> > somewhere that I can enable for this?
>
> killall -TERM nm-openvpn-service
> /path/to/nm-openvpn-service --debug --persist
>
> that works for newer versions of nm-openvpn (like 0.8.1 and later); for
> earlier versions you may need to:
>
> killall -TERM nm-openvpn-service
> OPENVPN_DEBUG=1 /path/to/nm-openvpn-service --persist
>
> where of course /path/to/ gets replaced with where that binary lives;
> for non-Debian systems it's usually /usr/libexec otherwise I'm not sure
> where it lives.
>
> Dan


Thanks for the quick response.  Am running Fedora 14 and have 
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.1-1.fc14.i686 installed.

When I try your suggestions, I get the following messages (non-root 
account):

[eric@eric-laptop ~]$ killall -TERM 
nm-openvpn-servicenm-openvpn-service: no process found

[eric@eric-laptop ~]$ /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service --debug --persist
** (process:8434): WARNING **: <WARN>  constructor(): Connection 
":1.134" is not allowed to own the service 
"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn" due to security policies in the 
configuration file


Any suggestions / ideas?

Thanks,

Eric