SOLVED Missing "/conf/base/etc" in jail?

[Naesstrom]

Moving from transmission to qbit since I want it to unrar the files and never got that working. QB is all set up and working fine but when I try to install OVPN I've run into some problem.
One of the commands are

Code:

echo 'openvpn_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf && echo 'openvpn_enable="YES"' >> /conf/base/etc/rc.conf

but everytime I try to run that I get /conf/base/etc/rc.conf: No such file or directory. since I don't have the /conf/base/etc/ directory. Have I screwed something up when creating the jail or am I just being stupid and missing something?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

This directory should not be there and you should not write anything in that place. Who told you to do that?

/conf is a directory used in diskless and/or NanoBSD installations and not in regular FreeBSD like inside a jail.

 

[Naesstrom]

This directory should not be there and you should not write anything in that place. Who told you to do that?

/conf is a directory used in diskless and/or NanoBSD installations and not in regular FreeBSD like inside a jail.

Their guide to install it on freenas have one step that looks like:

Code:

echo 'openvpn_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf && echo 'openvpn_enable="YES"' >> /conf/base/etc/rc.conf
echo 'openvpn_configfile="/usr/local/etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf"' >> /etc/rc.conf && echo 'openvpn_configfile="/usr/local/etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf"' >> /conf/base/etc/rc.conf

Well that explains why it failed atleast, tried doing the setup but skipping that part but it wont start so I have contacted them again!

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Their guide to install it on freenas have one step that looks like:

Whose guide?

Don't skip the entire step. Just do the first part only:

Code:

echo 'openvpn_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'openvpn_configfile="/usr/local/etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf"' >> /etc/rc.conf

HTH,
Patrick

 

[Naesstrom]

Whose guide?

Ah sorry, ovpn.se where I'm subscribed, their full guide is here https://www.ovpn.com/en/guides/freenas

Don't skip the entire step. Just do the first part only:

Code:

echo 'openvpn_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'openvpn_configfile="/usr/local/etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf"' >> /etc/rc.conf

HTH,
Patrick

Yeah sorry, I was just unclear, i skipped each command that referenced to /conf/etc/ and did the rest!

 

[sretalla]

You could always forget about the location and use sysrc to worry about it for you...

sysrc openvpn_enable="YES"

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Ah sorry, ovpn.se where I'm subscribed, their full guide is here https://www.ovpn.com/en/guides/freenas

Outdated. Clearly they are referring to FreeNAS 8 or similar because they don't use iocage but jls and jexec.

As a general rule of thumb, if you want to install software X in a FreeNAS/TrueNAS jail, look for FreeBSD instructions:

Install OpenVPN on FreeBSD

Install OpenVPN on FreeBSD. Simple guide that goes through all installations steps for OpenVPN on FreeBSD.

www.ovpn.com

 

[Naesstrom]

Thanks, followed that guide and atleast managed to get it installed but get a fatal error when starting it?

Code:

2021-04-08 15:19:08 ROUTE_GATEWAY 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 IFACE=epair0b HWADDR=02:ff:60:5d:88:80
2021-04-08 15:19:08 Cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev dynamically
2021-04-08 15:19:08 Exiting due to fatal error
root@qbit:/ 

tun is enabled in the jail settings and I even compared all the other settings to my transmission jail where openvpn is working so don't think it's something I missed there

 

[Newfoundland.Republic]

Question: Why are you manually installing OpenVPN? See TrueNAS and OpenVPN client configuration

 

[Naesstrom]

Question: Why are you manually installing OpenVPN? See TrueNAS and OpenVPN client configuration

I only want it for a single Jail not the entire NAS and I need to install it in the jail for that.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

tun is enabled in the jail settings and I even compared all the other settings to my transmission jail where openvpn is working so don't think it's something I missed there

Tun can be a bit picky with device node creation in the jail - I had to reboot the NAS once to whack the devfs or something into shape. From that point on it worked.

 

[Naesstrom]

Tun can be a bit picky with device node creation in the jail - I had to reboot the NAS once to whack the devfs or something into shape. From that point on it worked.

OMG yes... a reboot and it now it's working! Thanks a million!

 

[Newfoundland.Republic]

Lordy - ye olde computational axiom: When in doubt, reboot!