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Hi all

I have just taken over an open vpn installation, it has been running fine until today. I am now getting a error message when I try and start the service “/etc/init.d/openvpn: line 148: 11573 file size limit exceeded$ openvpn –daemon –writepid $piddir/$bn.pid –config $c –cd $work” can anyone tell me where the startup are stored and any idea which file maybe causing this error.

Thanks for any help

Paul

hi there,

what distro are you using?

just curious,
can you edit /etc/init.d/openvpn file and see what line 148 says?

anything interesting on openvpn log file?

Michael

Hi Michael

It is distro centso 5.3

line 148 read says $openvpn –daemon –writepid $piddir/$bn.pid –config $c –cd $work
which is the same as the default config

thanks

Paul

can you try to start openvpn by hand?

i mean by typing openvpn --config path-to-your-conf-file

also can you post the output of sestatus command?

Michael.

hi Michael

when i run openvpn --config server.conf i get "file size limit exceeded"
and when i try sestatus i get "selinux status : disabled"

thanks again for your help

Paul

what are the contents of the config file? are you logging to a separate file? has that file grown too large?

hi

resolved

thanks for that, it ended up when i went through the config file i found the log file when i checked the size it had grown to over 2gb. i have renamed the old one and created a new one, the service loaded first time.

one to watch for the future

thanks for all you help

Paul

ok then,

closing topic

Michael.