OpenVPN Errors on x86

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I am trying to setup OpenVPN on my x86 box running 18.06.2 (squashfs custom build) but I am running into the following error when I try to start the OpenVPN server:
Tue Mar 26 21:48:29 2019 daemon.err openvpn(sample_server)[17236]: Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s) in openvpn-sample_server.conf:7: ifconfig-pool-persist (2.4.5)

I tried removing the ifconfig-pool-persist from the config and the error switches to this:
Tue Mar 26 21:48:30 2019 daemon.err openvpn(sample_server)[17258]: Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s) in openvpn-sample_server.conf:11: server (2.4.5)

I've also tried using my existing config file from my working OpenVPN server, but it throws the same errors.

These are pretty basic config options, I can't seem to figure out why it's not recognizing them.

I set the following options in my .config file to include OpenVPN in the build and got no errors during the build process.

CONFIG_PACKAGE_openvpn-openssl=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-tun=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libc=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libopenssl=y

My /etc/config/openvpn file looks like this:

config openvpn 'sample_server'
        option port '1194'
        option proto 'udp'
        option dev 'tun'
        option ca '/mnt/sda3/openvpn/ca.crt'
        option cert '/mnt/sda3/openvpn/myfile.crt'
        option key '/mnt/sda3/openvpn/myfile.key'
        option dh '/mnt/sda3/openvpn/dh.pem'
        option server '10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0'
        option keepalive '10 120'
        option persist_key '1'
        option persist_tun '1'
        option user 'nobody'
        option status '/tmp/openvpn-status.log'
        option verb '3'
        option enabled '1'

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

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openvpn-sample_server.conf:11
openvpn-sample_server.conf:7

This suggests line 11+7 are an issue.... Are you sure there are no other .conf files in /etc/openvpn/?

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Those errors were from 2 different config files.

The error that references line 7 was from an earlier config file that had both ifconfig-pool-persist (line 7) and server (line 12) options in it.

The error that references line 11 was from the posted config file that had ifconfig-pool-persist removed and only the server (line 11) option in it.

/etc/openvpn is empty.

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Then that is indicative of a syntax error....

Take a close look at every character.......

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Why don't you follow the guide:

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Thanks for the suggestions, but I was able to resolve the issue by doing a make clean on my build environment and rebuilding.

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