[Openswan Users] pluto does not start with Kernel 2.6.25

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Roger Schreiter wrote:

> On an embedded machine, running also SuSE-Linux-10.2, but with a
> kernel compiled by myself, version 2.6.25.4, OpenSwan 2.6.18
> does not start.
> Ipsec support is included in the kerel.
> 
> When calling /etc/init.d/ipsec start, I get:
>     ipsec_setup: Starting Openswan IPsec U2.6.18/K2.6.25.4...
>     ipsec_setup: Command line is not complete. Try option "help"

Looks like something is wrong on your system. Perhaps some broken
busybox or missing helper scripts? 

> Furthermore I can see, that _plutorun is started and restarted
> again and again (which makes it hard to kill, since PID is constantly
> increasing.)

add plutorestartoncrash=no and dumpdir=/tmp to 'config setup'. Also
check the logs why pluto is failing to start.

Paul