Some starting documents

[Zenny]

On 12/2/12, Dick Middleton <dick at fouter.net> wrote:
> On 12/02/12 21:12, Zenny wrote:
>> On 12/2/12, Dick Middleton <dick at fouter.net> wrote:
>>> On 12/02/12 21:06, Zenny wrote:
>>>> 1) On mandos-server VM A, I am getting the following error:
>>>>
>>>> "2012-12-02T22:03:17.346685: Checker for client gw1.domain.tld
>>>> (command "fping -q -- 192\.168\.53\.161") failed with exit code 1"
>>>
>>> why the \. and not just . ???
>>>
>>> Is that what you typed in or just the format of the error message?
>>
>> That is the what echoed on the screen though I have just 192.168.53.161
>
> Phew :-)
>
> Try temporarily putting this in the clients.conf block for the client under
> test:
>
> checker = sleep 1
>
> Then it won't do a ping but will always return true so it wont disable the
> client.
>
> It should reduce the variables whilst you debug.

I appended the line checker = sleep 1 to client.conf block, restarted
mandos server (VM A) and rebooted the mandos-client (VM B) without any
output, but the VM B stopped at the point when it asks for the
passphrase to decrypt the encrypted /.

>
> Dick
>