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[Openvpn-users] When using 'chroot' no signal SIGHUP is possible


  • Subject: [Openvpn-users] When using 'chroot' no signal SIGHUP is possible
  • From: Stefan.Weigel@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:50:39 +0100


Hi list,

I've a little problem when running my OpenVPN daemon in chroot environment. When I startup:

[..]
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 Control Channel Authentication: using '/etc/openvpn/keys_lan/ta.key' as a OpenVPN static key file
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 TLS-Auth MTU parms [ .. ]
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 TUN/TAP device tapin0 opened
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 Data Channel MTU parms [ .. ]
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 chroot to '/etc/openvpn' and cd to '/' succeeded
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 GID set to openvpn
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 UID set to openvpn
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 Socket Buffers: R=[107520->131072] S=[107520->131072]
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 UDPv4 link local (bound): xx.xx.xx.xx:xxxx
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 UDPv4 link remote: [undef]
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 MULTI: multi_init called, r=256 v=256
Tue Feb 13 15:26:37 2007 Initialization Sequence Completed

When doing now a SIGHUP signal via management console, I get:

[..]
Tue Feb 13 15:31:54 2007 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from xxx.xxx.xx.xx:xxxx
Tue Feb 13 15:32:05 2007 TCP/UDP: Closing socket
Tue Feb 13 15:32:05 2007 Closing TUN/TAP interface
Tue Feb 13 15:32:05 2007 SIGHUP[hard,] received, process restarting
Tue Feb 13 15:32:05 2007 MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected
Tue Feb 13 15:32:05 2007 cd to '/etc/openvpn/' failed: No such file or directory (errno=2)
Tue Feb 13 15:32:05 2007 Exiting

As I can see it's not trying to find /etc/openvpn in the previous set chroot jail. But that's in my opinion an error. What can I do.
Btw. I tested with version 2.1_rc1 and with 2.0.9.


Best regards

Stefan Weigel
IT Muenchen
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