question again

Raymond House raymondh40 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 23 18:24:06 UTC 2015


here is what I get : raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$ cd
~/Downloads/etc
raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~/Downloads/etc$



On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:14 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, there's the "official" /etc just off of the root, but in your case I
> believe we need to work in the folder you created earlier, namely
>  /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/
>
> if you do:
>
> cd ~/Downloads/etc
>
> you should be in the right folder for this job.  _Should be_ !
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 at 14:09 Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes Jeff, I'm trying to get Anonymizer going, I tried your suggestion and
>> still getting the sane error.I see a folder named "etc" in home/Downloads/
>> and I have the openvpn file in it, is this the same "etc" you are talking
>> about?
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:00 PM, CrankyOldBugger <
>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Shot in the dark here..
>>>
>>> Did you buy and/or download Anonymizer?  Judging by that file list,
>>> that's my guess.
>>>
>>> So I went over to the Anonymizer website, and noticed that you have to
>>> "sudo" the config command:
>>>
>>> *sudo openvpn --config anonymizer_universal.ovpn*
>>>
>>> Now this is the command I found on their site.  If you're not using
>>> Anonymizer, probably best to ignore me for the rest of the day...
>>>
>>> Beside sudo, they also specified a different .ovpn file.  If you are
>>> using Anonymizer, maybe try the command shown here?  I'm just guessing
>>> here..
>>>
>>> Also, I noticed that you extracted everything into /home/raymond/Downloads/etc.
>>> I think that you may have misunderstood a step somewhere along the way.
>>> It's still ok the way it is!  But just so you know, Downloads (aka
>>> ~/Downloads) is in your home folder /home/raymond/Downloads, but /etc is
>>> actually a system folder in the root of your system.  I think you may have
>>> stuck the two folders together in one command.  You're still ok!  You'll
>>> see lots of programs stick their configuration files in /etc.  No damage
>>> done here, but I always double-check the instructions whenever I see "/etc"
>>> or anything other than the home folder.  Just a security thing..
>>>
>>> You seem to be having problems with the Linux folder system.  Don't
>>> worry, it took me a long time to figure it out too.  It gets even harder if
>>> you're coming from a Windows or DOS background.  Here's a youtube video
>>> that might help out: https://youtu.be/2qQTXp4rBEE
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 at 13:06 Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> this the part that I cant get to work
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> but before that step I'm supposed to open the file, thus :
>>>>> *Running the OpenVPN client with the downloaded client config file**:*
>>>>>  Usually, the easiest way to install an OpenVPN client is to use the
>>>>> *--config* argument to specify the location of the downloaded client
>>>>> config file:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *openvpn --config client.ovpn*
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> They suggest to Downloads/etc, I tried to do that but I really don't
>>>>>> know what I'm doing (as you can see).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Stephen M. Webb <
>>>>>> stephen.webb at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>>>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 15-03-23 12:25 PM, Raymond House wrote:
>>>>>>> > Nothing came up with the first command but here is the result of
>>>>>>> the second command:
>>>>>>> > raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$  find $HOME
>>>>>>> -name 'client.*'
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/lib/au/client.key
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/lib/au/client.crt
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/lib/au/client.key
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/lib/au/client.crt
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/lib/au/client.key
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/lib/au/client.crt
>>>>>>> > /home/raymond/Downloads/anonymizer_universal_openvpn
>>>>>>> (2)/lib/au/client.key
>>>>>>> > /home/raymond/Downloads/anonymizer_universal_openvpn
>>>>>>> (2)/lib/au/client.crt
>>>>>>> > /home/raymond/Downloads/anonymizer_universal_openvpn
>>>>>>> (3)/lib/au/client.key
>>>>>>> > /home/raymond/Downloads/anonymizer_universal_openvpn
>>>>>>> (3)/lib/au/client.crt
>>>>>>> > raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Looking over the how-to at openvpn.org it seem you need to manually
>>>>>>> copy
>>>>>>> /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files/client.conf to
>>>>>>> some place (maybe $HOME/client.ovpn, to start) and
>>>>>>> edit it to point to the appropriate .key and .crt files, and, um,
>>>>>>> stuff.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - --
>>>>>>> Stephen M. Webb  <stephen at ubuntu.com>
>>>>>>> https://launchpad.net/~bregma
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