Tunnelblick Utilities

Quit All OpenVPN Processes

You may quit all running OpenVPN processes by clicking this button.

Clicking the Quit All OpenVPN Processes button quits all OpenVPN processes, including those which were not started by Tunnelblick. You should use the Tunnelblick "Disconnect" or "Disconnect All" menu commands to disconnect configurations which were connected using Tunnelblick.

Clicking this button sends a "SIGTERM" signal to all processes named "openvpn". Normally this will cause OpenVPN to close all connections and quit. If this button does not quit all OpenVPN processes, you may need to use the macOS Activity Monitor application to "Force Quit" the process.

Copy Console Log to Clipboard

You may copy the last part of the Console Log to the Clipboard by clicking this button.

Clicking the Copy Console Log to Clipboard button causes Tunnelblick to copy the last 200 lines of Tunnelblick's Console Log entries to the Clipboard.

The Console Log contains details of Tunnelblick's and OpenVPN's operations. It includes normal status messages and detailed error messages that are too long to present to the user in a normal dialog window.

Open Uninstall Instructions in Browser

Opens the Uninstalling Tunnelblick page on the official Tunnelblick website in Safari.

Open easy-rsa in Terminal

Tunnelblick includes a customized version of "easy-rsa", which is a set of command line scripts for creating and maintaining certificates and keys.

Clicking the Open easy-rsa in Terminal button launches the macOS Terminal application with the working directory set to the folder containing the scripts.

The scripts are located in the folder at ~/Library/Application Support/Tunnelblick/easy-rsa. An "easy-rsaPath" preference can contain the path to a folder that Tunnelblick will use instead. "easy-rsaPath" must be an absolute path or start with a "~", and the parent folder of the path must exist. If a folder exists at the path, it will be used; if it does not exist, it will be created and the easy-rsa scripts will be installed into it when Tunnelblick is launched.

For information about using easy-rsa, see Setting up your own Certificate Authority (CA) and generating certificates and keys for an OpenVPN server and multiple clients in the OpenVPN HOWTO documentation.

For details of Tunnelblick's customizations of easy-rsa, see the README file located in the folder.