Failover PrepStandby error

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9krystian
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Failover PrepStandby error

Post by 9krystian » Fri May 19, 2017 1:13 pm

On both nodes installed and configured in Failover I had below error in /var/log/openvpnas-node.log

2017-05-19 06:10:18-0700 [-] PrepStandby error: failed to start standby openvpnas daemon on 10.102.0.181 (1, '[err=1] out=[] err=[]')
2017-05-19 06:10:49-0700 [-] PrepStandby error: failed to start standby openvpnas daemon on 10.102.0.181 (1, '[err=1] out=[] err=[]')
2017-05-19 06:11:20-0700 [-] PrepStandby error: failed to start standby openvpnas daemon on 10.102.0.181 (1, '[err=1] out=[] err=[]')
2017-05-19 06:11:50-0700 [-] PrepStandby error: failed to start standby openvpnas daemon on 10.102.0.181 (1, '[err=1] out=[] err=[]')
2017-05-19 06:12:21-0700 [-] PrepStandby error: failed to start standby openvpnas daemon on 10.102.0.181 (1, '[err=1] out=[] err=[]')

I have /etc/init.d/openvpas with 755 root:root permissions

ssaunders
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Re: Failover PrepStandby error

Post by ssaunders » Sat Dec 09, 2017 5:59 am

Ever work this out? I'm getting a similar message, also every 30 seconds, only on the active node. Failover seems to work fine, though.

2017-12-09 16:43:49+1100 [-] PrepStandby error: failed to start standby openvpnas daemon on 192.168.10.41 (1, '[err=127] out=[] err=[]')

Failover seems to work fine, though. Given the message is logged every 30 seconds in time I end up with a huge number of log files for openvpn-node.log.

I'm running 2.1.12 on Ubuntu OpenVPN appliance 16.04.3 LTS, with ssh in failover configured to use root with key-based authentication.

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