Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2114 mails)

[Jonathan Ervine <jervine@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 30 October 2008 11:29:46 Patrik Hasibuan wrote:
> Dear Jo,
>
> This is my try:
> "
> mysussy:~ # ls /etc/openvpn
> README       loopback-client      server.conf         xinetd-client-config
> client.conf  loopback-server      server.conf.orig    xinetd-server-config
> easy-rsa     office.up            static-home.conf   
> xinetd-server-config.orig firewall.sh  openvpn-shutdown.sh 
> static-office.conf
> home.up      openvpn-startup.sh   tls-home.conf
> ipp.txt      openvpn-status.log   tls-office.conf

So there are loads of .conf files in there ... you'll need to reduce this to 
one (server.conf) at some point.

> mysussy:~ # cd /
> mysussy:/ # openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/server.conf
> Thu Oct 30 11:23:05 2008 OpenVPN 2.0.9 i586-suse-linux [SSL] [LZO] [EPOLL]
> built on Jun  7 2008 Thu Oct 30 11:23:05 2008 TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed
> on local address 219.83.114.179:1194: Address already in use Thu Oct 30
> 11:23:05 2008 Exiting
> mysussy:/ # cd /etc/openvpn
> mysussy:/etc/openvpn # openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/server.conf
> Thu Oct 30 11:23:20 2008 OpenVPN 2.0.9 i586-suse-linux [SSL] [LZO] [EPOLL]
> built on Jun  7 2008 Thu Oct 30 11:23:21 2008 TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed
> on local address 219.83.114.179:1194: Address already in use Thu Oct 30
> 11:23:21 2008 Exiting
> mysussy:/etc/openvpn #
> "

Probably an existing instance of openvpn is holding the port open. 
netstat -anp | grep 1194 should tell you which process has this port open. 
Kill the process and start it again from the command line.

> '219.83.114.179' is the global-ip number of my outter wlan-card towards the
> internet gateway of our ISP.
>
> I am confused why the port-number of '1194' has been already occupied
> whereas the 'openvpn' still can not start. Who/which is using this
> port-number?
>
> Please advice me.

See above.
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