[Openswan Users] 030 message from whack contains bad string

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 00:58 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> Hello, all.  I've just updated to CentOS 5.4 which uses ipsec auto
> 2.6.21.  All of a sudden, I am getting whack errors when using ipsec
> auto commands, e.g.:
> 
> [root at fw01 remotenets]# ipsec auto --delete a10-FP2Net10
> 030 message from whack contains bad string
> 
> What does this mean? I could find very little while searching for this
> error.  I have not rebooted the devices or restarted ipsec.  I'm
> hesitant to do so for fear all my tunnels will break.  Thanks - John

Thanks to very helpful folks on IRC, I learned this is due to the change
to nss based X.509 in CentOS 5.4.  I hit some problems in the transition
and will flag those under a separate email - John
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