[Openswan Users] problem using openswan on gentoo linux.

[Paul Wouters]

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Jens-Uwe Katolla wrote:

> i was successfully using openswan a while on a gentoo linux system. But
> now after some updates to the system i have problems starting it.
>
> The logfile /var/log/messages says:
>
> Oct  2 13:43:08 amd64 ipsec__plutorun: Starting Pluto subsystem...
> Oct  2 13:43:08 amd64 ipsec__plutorun: awk: cmd. line:52:       function
> default(k, val) {

you got a new ack which was compiled with the keyword 'default'. Either
upgrade openswan or edit /usr//libexec/ipsec/auto and change the
function 'default' to 'openswan_default'.

> I am using openswan-2.4.0 (also tried 2.4.1dr1 and 2.3.1) and gawk
> GNU Awk 3.1.4 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2003 Free Software Foundation.

Really? This should have been fixed in 2.4.x. I'll double check that for
2.4.2.

Paul
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