[Openswan Users] ipsec setup start error - has wrong number of fields (1) -- `start' aborted

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Xavi Deop wrote:

> Hi, after configuring my /etc/ipsec.conf and /etc/ipsec.secrets, I try to
> start ipsec:
>
> # ipsec setup start
>
> And I get the following error:
> "  has wrong number of fields (1) -- `start' aborted "

You probably have a tab's or empty lines. use this:

conn name
	parm1=values
	parm2=value
	# parm3 unused
	parm4=value

You must start all options in a conn with a <tab>. You may not have empty
lines in between

Paul