On Mon, 2018-11-12 at 20:39 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 11/6/18 1:43 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> When I start one of the two vpn definitions, that have been in
> networkmanager for years and used to work fine (I haven't used them in
> quite a while), it starts and I get a pop-up message saying that
> interface tun0 has been activated in the firewall default zone (being
> fedoraworkstation). This interface remains active for about a minute or
> so until I get the pop-up message that interface tun0 has been
> deactivated in the firewall default zone, and the vpn is no longer
> connected. The vpn connection is using Openvpn.
>
> I have checked dmesg for any message relative to tun0 or firewall
> and there are no messages for either. How do I determine why the vpn
> won't stay active?
Run "sudo journalctl -b -t openvpn" to find all the journal entries.
Slightly OT, but '-t' requires a SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER as argument. However
the man page for journalctl doesn't specify what that means. It's
clearly not just a substring (you can get that with '-g') so what
exactly is it?
poc