Bug 519638

Summary:	net-misc/strongswan-5.2.0 - /etc/init.d/ipsec: /usr/sbin/ipsec: unknown IPsec command `addconn' (`ipsec --help' for list)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Markus Wernig <public>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Patrick Lauer <patrick>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	gurligebis
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Markus Wernig 2014-08-11 11:34:21 UTC

After installing and configuring net-misc/strongswan-5.2.0 (via /etc/ipsec.conf) the ipsec system cannot be started via the start script in /etc/init.d/ipsec:

# /etc/init.d/ipsec start
 * Caching service dependencies ...          [ ok ]

/usr/sbin/ipsec: unknown IPsec command `addconn' (`ipsec --help' for list)
 * ERROR: ipsec failed to start

From looking at the file it appears that this is from a very much earlier version of strongswan that only had pluto:
...
description="pluto is an IKE daemon that is used to setup IPSEC VPN connections."
...

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-09-13 13:58:30 UTC

From what I can see, it looks like you are trying to use an old configuration from when pluto was around.

It is more of a issue with strongswan than a Gentoo issue.

May I suggest taking it directly to the strongswan upstream people?
They will be able to help debug your configuration better than we can.

You can find their issue tracker here: https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan .

Closing as UPSTREAM.