[matpol]

I have a script that starts openvpn from within xbmc. It is a pythonscript. It manages to start openvpn but it seems to immediately stop again. Anyone know why this might be?

Cheers

Matthew

[davilla]

Sorry, I can't see your xbmc.log from my desk. Could you move it closer ?

[matpol]

Sorry long time getting back been on my hols. I don't think this is a problem with XBMC necessarily. Having looked at the logs the script gets called and the programme does start I checked this by doing a ps -ax and openvpn is there. A minute later I run the ps -ax again and it has gone. If I run the command I use in the python script on the commandline it starts no problem. Saying that I will get a copy of the log. I think it is more a permissions thing as openvpn needs to start using sudo.

[jwdv22]

My friend is sending me his aTV 1Gen from LA to test and I am doing some preliminary investigating how to get an OpenVPN client setup and started when XBMC is started.

Thanks for your work, and if you could share the script I would appreciate it.

[matpol]

here's a copy of my script - it's not much

Code:

import os
os.system('sudo /Users/frontrow/Library/openvpn/openvpnOSX --config /Users/frontrow/Library/openvpn/Overplay\ -\ US-West.conf &')

as I say it starts openvpn then after about a minute it stops. Running the same command from the command line it's fine/