Problem with openvpn certificate Revoke

Smile Maker [britto_can at yahoo.com]

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:49:24 -0700 (PDT)

Folks,

I am running openvpn-2.0.9-1 in Fedora core 4.I installed as rpm.

When i try to revoke the certificate from the data base , I am getting the following error

"Using configuration from /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/openssl.cnf
error on line 282 of config file '/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/openssl.cnf'
6819:error:0E065068:configuration file routines:STR_COPY:variable has no value:conf_def.c:629:line 282
Using configuration from /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/openssl.cnf
error on line 282 of config file '/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/openssl.cnf'
6820:error:0E065068:configuration file routines:STR_COPY:variable has no value:conf_def.c:629:line 282
cat: crl.pem: No such file or directory "

Can u guys help me out

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:33:03 -0400

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:49:24AM -0700, Smile Maker wrote:

>    Folks,
> 
>     I am running openvpn-2.0.9-1 in Fedora core 4.I installed as rpm.
> 
>    When i try to revoke the certificate from the data base  , I am getting
>    the following error
> 
>    "Using configuration from /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/openssl.cnf
>    error on line 282 of config file '/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/openssl.cnf'

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Seems pretty self-diagnosing to me. What is the actual problem that you're having? Once you've fixed the reason for the above error, that is?

>    6819:error:0E065068:configuration file routines:STR_COPY:variable has no
>    value:conf_def.c:629:line 282
>    Using configuration from /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/openssl.cnf
>    error on line 282 of config file '/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/openssl.cnf'
>    6820:error:0E065068:configuration file routines:STR_COPY:variable has no
>    value:conf_def.c:629:line 282
>    cat: crl.pem: No such file or directory "

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>    Can u guys help me out

It has been discovered that fixing the reported errors often fixes the problems. You might want to take care of that. Once you've done that, feel free to tell us if you have any further ones.

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