plagued with ERROR: Linux route add command failed

[neuronetv]

I've been hammering at this for hours and trawling google but I can't clear this error, I've seen plenty of forum posts about it but none show a clear solution.
I'm running a centos6 machine with openvpn-2.3.2-2.el6.x86_64, the machine is on 172.16.1.x 255.255.0.0, this is my server.conf:

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port 1194
proto tcp
dev tun
ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key
tls-auth ta.key 0
dh dh2048.pem
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
cipher AES-256-CBC
comp-lzo
persist-key
persist-tun
user nobody
group nobody
status openvpn-status.log
verb 3
#push "redirect-gateway def1"
push "route 172.16.0.0 255.255.0.0"
push "route 172.16.1.0 255.255.0.0"
push "dhcp-option DNS 208.67.222.222"
push "dhcp-option DNS 208.67.220.220"
keepalive 5 30
log /var/log/openvpn.log

but every time I restart openvpn I get:

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ERROR: Linux route add command failed: external program exited with error status: 2

and thus I can't get the client to play ball. The client connects fine but cannot see any ip address on the server LAN and I don't think I'll sort this until I clear this initial error (which has me baffled).

[Traffic]

Please see the Forum rules (top of page)

[neuronetv]

in what way does my op not meet the forum rules? I've given the server.conf, I've given the log error message, I've tried to be clear and succint in the problem description. Thankyou for brickwalling this topic right from the start.

[Traffic]

in what way does my op not meet the forum rules?

How about the client details ...

've tried to be clear and succint in the problem description

Is this an error on the server or the client ? It is not clear.

Thankyou for brickwalling this topic right from the start

This is not a brick wall .. this is how you get help from Volunteers ...

[neuronetv]

ok thankyou and I note your points.
This problem only concerns the startup of openvpn on the centos server, it has nothing to do with a client connecting. This problem is entirely on the server, sorry if I didn't make that clear in my op. In starting openvpn I keep getting:

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ERROR: Linux route add command failed: external program exited with error status: 2

and I don't understand what's wrong with my server config to cause this.
ps: I've also tried uncommenting '#push "redirect-gateway def1"' but it made no difference.

[Traffic]

I don't understand what's wrong with my server config to cause this.

I don't think there is anything wrong with your server config.

I've also tried uncommenting '#push "redirect-gateway def1"' but it made no difference.

Why would it ?

The error:

ERROR: Linux route add command failed: external program exited with error status: 2

is exactly what it says: Linux route add command failed.

In your server config the only point the "route add" command is used is by the --server directive. See --server in The Manual v23x

As to why it fails, the only reason I can think of is that you are not running OpenVPN with sufficient rights to alter the routing table ...

But as we still don't have the full log this is just a guess..