Re: NetworkManager-vpnc config help

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs clemson edu>]

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 12:49 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 11:46 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> > (1) If I want to add
> > 
> >         DPD idle timeout (our side) 0
> > 
> > what do I need to name the key in gconf?  The gconf editor complains
> > about the parentheses.
> 
> The name of the item in GConf is the exact string passed to vpnc as a
> configuration option.  You'll need to GConf-escape the parentheses.
> GConf uses the @ symbol as the escape, so you want to convert the
> characters to be escaped to decimal, then put that number between two @
> symbols, like so:
> 
> My Option -->>>  My 32@Option

I added the key DPD 32idle@32timeout 32@40our 32side@41, set to integer
0, and now NM-vpnc won't connect at all.  The only messages are:

        May 14 20:07:44 valkyrie NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
        'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' exec scheduled...
        May 14 20:07:44 valkyrie NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
        'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' executed
        (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 15520
        May 14 20:07:44 valkyrie NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
        'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' just appeared, activating
        connections
        May 14 20:07:44 valkyrie NetworkManager: <WARN>
        connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request
        because no VPN connection was active.

No change to the applet icon.

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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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