"Name" directive in tinc.conf

[Nikolaus Rath]

Hello,

According to http://tinc-vpn.org/documentation/tinc_4.html:

,----
| Name = <name> [required]
| |     This is a symbolic name for this connection. The name should consist
|     only of alfanumeric and underscore characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and _). 
`----

However, if I set an arbitrary name, I get

# tincd -D -n hbt -d
tincd 1.0.11 (Nov 18 2009 03:31:26) starting, debug level 1
Cannot open config file /etc/tinc/hbt/hosts/hbt: No such file or directory
Cannot open host configuration file for myself!
Terminating

If I set 'Name' to the file that describes the local host as the error
message suggest, things seems to work. But I'm a bit confused as to why
tinc may need that file.. the private key is not in there, and address,
compression, cipher etc. don't seem to apply either.


Error in the documentation, or did I misunderstand something?


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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