Re: Enabling VPN Support (again)

[Steev <steev steev net>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 15:37 -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote:
> > I looked through the code and didn't really see what checks to see if 
> > vpnc is installed.  There's nothing in the configure script that does 
> > this, so my big question is: How do you enable VPN support in 
> > NetworkManager?
>
> If you look at src/vpn-manager/nm-vpn-manager.c at the very bottom,
> you'll see a function called nm_vpn_manager_load_services().  That
> function reads all files in SYSCONFDIR"/NetworkManager/VPN" and parses
> them to make sure they are valid.  If the vpnc service file isn't in
> that directory, then NM won't find the service.
>
> The other utils also check that directory for the existence of any vpn
> service files.  If they don't find any, VPN won't be available to you.
>
> Dan
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The directory does exist - the problem is - at least on Gentoo - the 
vpnc service itself doesn't get built - I don't even see the vpn-daemons 
 folder (Remi sorry we keep missing each other in #gentopia on freenode 
- I am in training at work, so I am not available from around 2:30pm 
Central time until Midnight Central time)

I thought I wrote to the list earlier about it - but apparently it 
didn't go through from my Gentoo email address.

If I run autoreconf in the directory, it does reconfigure, but I am 
wondering exactly how to enable it since it doesn't even appear to have 
the vpn-daemons directory in the 0.5.1 tarball.

I know that it has been in CVS for a while, so not sure why make dist 
would be leaving it out...

-- Steev