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Problem starting OpenVPN

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Anassa

Guest
If I want to start OpenVPN via Plesk I get an error msg.
In /var/log/messages I find:

OpenVPN 2.0 i686-suse-linux [CRYPTO] [LZO] [EPOLL] built on Aug 24 2005
openvpn[15893]: LZO compression initialized
openvpn[15893]: Note: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: Permission denied (errno=13)
openvpn[15893]: Note: Attempting fallback to kernel 2.2 TUN/TAP interface
openvpn[15893]: Cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev dynamically
openvpn[15893]: Exiting

h830104:/var/log # ll /dev/net/
total 17
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 19 18:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 12288 Apr 10 21:39 ..
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 200 Mar 19 18:50 tun

I am running Suse 9.3 and Plesk 7.5

What is wrong?
Thx,
Lars
 
try disabling comp-lzo in the conf file on botht the server and client. This worked for me
 
i found just one conf file openvpn.conf ..i commented the line out. Is there anything else to be done ?
 
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