tinc - Nov 2019 - Fwd: Error during key creation

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup tinc on 2 VPSs following this guide:
https://www.linode.com/docs/networking/vpn/how-to-set-up-tinc-peer-to-peer-vpn/

They are of the same type with Ubuntu 18.04.
On the the first one, I have manually built and installed tinc without an
issue (v.1.0.36).
On the second one, I've installed tinc from the repo (v.1.0.33), then
removed it and then built it and installed it (v.1.0.36) manually.
There was no error during the installation.
Now when I try to create the keys I'm getting this error:

$ sudo tincd -n linodeVPN -K 4096
Cannot open config file /usr/local/etc/tinc/linodeVPN/tinc.conf: No such
file or directory
Failed to read `/usr/local/etc/tinc/linodeVPN/tinc.conf': No such file or
directory
Generating 4096 bits keys:

Done.
Please enter a file to save private RSA key to
[/usr/local/etc/tinc/linodeVPN/rsa_key.priv]:
Error opening file `/usr/local/etc/tinc/linodeVPN/rsa_key.priv': No such
file or directory

Any ideas what went wrong and how can I fix it?

Regards,
Nick
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On 2019-11-09 19:16, Nick Gilmour wrote:
> $ sudo tincd -n linodeVPN -K 4096
> Cannot open config file /usr/local/etc/tinc/linodeVPN/tinc.conf: No
> such file or directory
> Failed to read `/usr/local/etc/tinc/linodeVPN/tinc.conf': No such file
> or directory
> Generating 4096 bits keys:
> 
> Done.
> Please enter a file to save private RSA key to
> [/usr/local/etc/tinc/linodeVPN/rsa_key.priv]:
> Error opening file `/usr/local/etc/tinc/linodeVPN/rsa_key.priv': No
> such file or directory
Does this directory exist?

/usr/local/etc/tinc/linodeVPN/


Tomasz Chmielewski
https://lxadm.com

> Cannot open config file /usr/local/etc/tinc/linodeVPN/tinc.conf: No such
> file or directory
> Any ideas what went wrong and how can I fix it?
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/tinc/linodeVPN


ALBI...

Thanks for the response!
With:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/tinc/linodeVPN
I was seeiing this in the logs:
Couldn't write pid file /usr/local/var/run/tinc.linodeVPN.pid: No such
file or directory

So I ended up doing this:
$ sudo ln -s /etc/tinc/linodeVPN/ /usr/local/etc/tinc/
which seems to have solved this issue (there were some other errors,
but I think they are not related).

However, I still find weird that such an error appeared on one machine
and not on the other one, since
there is not a folder like this: /usr/local/etc/tinc/ and tinc didn't
complain.

Regards,
Nick