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I got a weird problem while trying to follow the tutorial How to set up a Raspberry Pi VPN server for setting up OpenVPN on a Raspberry Pi:

At 3.

cd /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa
. ./vars
./clean-all
./build-ca

My console for some reason ends up with an error:

root@Pi-VPN:/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa#     cd /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa
root@Pi-VPN:/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa#     . ./vars
bash: ”/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa”/whichopensslcnf: No such file or directory
NOTE: If you run ./clean-all, I will be doing a rm -rf on ”/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa”/keys
root@Pi-VPN:/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa#     ./clean-all
mkdir: cannot create directory `”/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa”/keys': No such file or directory
root@Pi-VPN:/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa#     ./build-ca
./build-ca: 8: ./build-ca: ”/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa”/pkitool: not found

Why is it ending up with this error? My whichopensslcnf file is there for sure (I checked it with FTP). So that could not be the problem. Why isn't it finding this file then?

I just can't figure out what's wrong and nothing can be found about this problem on the Internet.

The output of Steve Robillard♦ question:

pi@Pi-VPN ~ $ ls -la /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa
total 144
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Feb 14 13:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Feb 14 13:00 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   119 Feb 14 13:00 build-ca
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   352 Feb 14 13:00 build-dh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   188 Feb 14 13:00 build-inter
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   163 Feb 14 13:00 build-key
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   157 Feb 14 13:00 build-key-pass
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   249 Feb 14 13:00 build-key-pkcs12
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   268 Feb 14 13:00 build-key-server
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   213 Feb 14 13:00 build-req
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   158 Feb 14 13:00 build-req-pass
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   428 Feb 14 13:00 clean-all
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1457 Feb 14 13:00 inherit-inter
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   295 Feb 14 13:00 list-crl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   413 Feb 14 13:00 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7768 Feb 14 13:00 openssl-0.9.6.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8325 Feb 14 13:00 openssl-0.9.8.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8222 Feb 14 13:00 openssl-1.0.0.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8224 Feb 14 13:00 openssl-1.0.0.cnf-old-copy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12675 Feb 14 13:00 pkitool
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3757 Feb 14 13:00 README.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   918 Feb 14 13:00 revoke-full
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   178 Feb 14 13:00 sign-req
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Feb 14 13:00 tmp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1861 Feb 14 13:03 vars
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   714 Feb 14 13:00 whichopensslcnf
pi@Pi-VPN ~ $ total 144
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    Can you edit your post to include the content of /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/vars and the output of ls -la /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/
    – Steve Robillard
    Feb 16, 2015 at 6:27
  • @SteveRobillard I edited my question.
    – Stefan
    Feb 16, 2015 at 18:37
  • I still need to see the contents of the vars file.
    – Steve Robillard
    Feb 19, 2015 at 0:13
  • Make sure you wrote "etc", not "ect" in the vars file
    – user47926
    Jun 12, 2016 at 10:36

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On step 2 of the same tutorial:

export EASY_RSA=”/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa”

Make sure you didn't copy-pasted with the ”” but with "" like:

export EASY_RSA="/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa"
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