Re: NetworkManager doesnt save the ip address

[Patrick Steiner <patrick helmsdeep at>]

Dan Williams wrote:
>> The remote and local ip gets saved now. But here is the next problem.
>>
>> I get the following error:
>>
>> WARNING **: <WARN>  helper_failed(): nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper did
>> not receive a valid VPN Gateway from openvpn
>>
>> this error comes from:
>>
>> nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper.c line 303 (r66)
>>
>> getenv("trusted_ip") where should this be set?
>>     
>
> trusted_ip *should* be the same thing you set "remote" to in the config
> file.  is that not the case?
>   
how can i figure this out? should trusted_ip be set as an environment
variable?
how can i start the openvpn connection via cmdline? i always start it
via the nm-applet in gnome.

 patrick