tincd searches for config files in the wrong directory

Guus Sliepen guus at tinc-vpn.org
Sat Oct 25 13:52:57 CEST 2014


On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 03:31:16AM -0400, Derek Chiang wrote:

> I'm new to tinc and I'm following this tutorial
> <https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-tinc-and-set-up-a-basic-vpn-on-ubuntu-14-04>
> to set up tinc on Ubuntu.  Because I wanted to test out the 1.1 branch, I
> compiled tinc from source.  However, when I start tincd, it searches for
> config files in /usr/local/etc, rather than in /etc as shown in the
> tutorial.  How may I config/compile tinc such that it searches for configs
> in a directory of my choice?

Run configure like this:

./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var

Then make clean; make.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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