I've been trying to setup a l2tp vpn connection for my computer, and while following the guide, I felt on a python error on line 84 link to the Openswan L2TP/IPsec VPN client setup guide.
ipsec verify
File "/usr/local/libexec/ipsec/verify", line 84
print "\t[%s%s%s]"%(FAIL,rtext,ENDC)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
OpenSwan service is up and running, and I've checked in /etc/ipsec.conf and /etc/ipsec.d/ to check if there was anything wrong and it does not look like it,
does anyone have an idea of what I could use for a work around
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Your error indicates that you are executing a python2 script with python3.
# python3
print('hi')
# python2
print 'hi'
Based on the xelerance/Openswan's ipsec/verify source, the shebang (first line of the script) indicates it will be using /usr/bin/python which in your case, on ArchLinux, is python3 ;)
#!/usr/bin/python
As described in the archlinux python wiki you may replace python with python2 directly on the file and it should start running again.
You could probably do a pull request directly on the project to ask for python3 support or at least using an env shebang like the following:
#!/usr/bin/env python
You can also manually change the file on your system with a python2 shebang
#!/usr/bin/env python2
As long as you have python2 installed on your system ;)