Config problems with Tinc 1.0.9 under FC10

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:39:31PM +0100, Sietze Schukking wrote:

> - the handling of the names of config files seems incorrect. When 
> generating key-pairs the file name of the public-key gets extended with 
> invisible characters. If I put an empty file with the correct name 
> already there a new file gets created with an '?' appended.

I cannot reproduce that behaviour. Can you use strace to get a log of the
system calls tincd performs? That might help debug this problem.

> - handling of config files written on windows machines doesnot seem to 
> be handled correctly. (At least 1.0.8 had this problem with newlines) 
> Now it might be that this was corrected in 1.0.9, but probably a new 
> error has popped up as now, although all config files are there and have 
> the correct names (copied to a different name and then back to its real 
> name to get rid of gremlins), I get the error message that it cannot 
> find the config files. One thing however is that the error message does 
> not contain the full path name of the file as the first 3 characters 
> look to be overwritten by the error message in front of it.
> All config files have been rewritten by me from scratch on the FC10 
> system in order not to have newlines in them.
> 
> Sorry not have exact output, but the system in question is not hooked up 
> to email.

Hm, the exact output would help a lot. Maybe you can store it on a USB stick or
put it on pastebin.com?

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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