Hey brothers,

Here's what I am going through right now, maybe one of you Unix geeks out there can tell me what to do.

I use Cisco VPN software to connect to a client's remote network. Well, it seems that after using the computer for a while, somehow the VPN service breaks, and can't be re-established. I get an error alert:

"Error 51: IPC socket allocation failed with error fffffffffffffch. This is most likely due to the Cisco Systems, Inc. VPN Service not being started. Please start this service and try again."

I've just been restarting, which works. Logging out and in doesn't. But I was wondering... there's gotta be a way to force a service to restart in the terminal, right? I'd much rather do that. Anyone ever do anything like that? Brother Rico?

Brother thalo a quick search on MacOSX Hints ponied up this hit.

Ahhh, perfect.

I think all you need is the "clean" method:

sudo SystemStarter restart CiscoVPN

I'm a little worried about the other command where the guy said the process "daemonizes silently to the background." Sounds like something that's going to loop forever and cut performance or fill up some log somewhere, lol.

As for the new version, holy crap, they've gotta know how slowly corporate america moves with stuff like that. It was a nightmare just to get my client to adopt the version that worked with Tiger at all.

thalo the X.4.6 update specifically addresses CISCO VPN connections.