~ not recognized als /Users/$USER about tunnelblick HOT 5 CLOSED

Please provide your ca line from your config file.

I have ca <cert filename> without providing the full path and things work fine.

Sorry .. misread the steps. This is an openvpn quirk and not a Tunnelblick one. 
You don't need to provide the 
path to the certificate. Simply use:

ca cert_file

Hah... that is seriously strange. So basicaly if the config and the ca file are 
in the same dir everything is happy?

Weird ... this works for cert & key directives, but not for up -- I have to 
specify a
full path to the up script.