goldcrest Goldcrest "--list" or "--info" options not working

[FlyawayRavage 0]

Using AirVPN suite 1.2.1 on Debian Bullseye, I can't seem to get the --air-list, --air-info, --air-key-list options to output anything.

I'm probably missing something obvious. I'm operating under the assumption that these commands are supposed to pull their info from AirVPN servers. Should I instead generate that info independently and store it locally somewhere for goldcrest to query? 

Here's the output from example commands given in the readme (other variants give the same output):

use@host:~$ goldcrest --air-info --air-server all
2023-03-13 14:26:26 Reading run control directives from file /root/.config/goldcrest.rc
Goldcrest 1.2.1 - 9 December 2022

2023-03-13 14:26:26 Bluetit - AirVPN OpenVPN 3 Service 1.2.1 - 9 December 2022
2023-03-13 14:26:27 OpenVPN core 3.8.2 AirVPN linux x86_64 64-bit
2023-03-13 14:26:27 Copyright (C) 2012-2020 OpenVPN Inc. All rights reserved.
2023-03-13 14:26:27 OpenSSL 1.1.1n  15 Mar 2022
2023-03-13 14:26:27 Bluetit is connected to VPN

Edited ... by FlyawayRavage

[Staff 9972]

@FlyawayRavage

Hello!

• The --air-server option requires an argument which is the exact server name, all is unknown with --air-info.
• The --air-key-list is stand-alone, you must not add --air-info.
• The --air-info --air-country combination also accepts continent names, and the special keyword earth.

In your case, when Bluetit is connected to some VPN server, it ignores all of those commands and simply tells you the status. This behavior might be changed in the next version, as it might be confusing.
What you probably want is (while Bluetit is disconnected from the VPN):

goldcrest --air-list --air-country all

Kind regards