OpenVPN SSL error with CA

[Szilveszter Ciurdar]

Does anyone have any experience on the client end for getting OpenVPN to
work?  The senior admin gave me the required key files.

ca.crt
my.crt
my.key
client.conf

I installed openvpn and lzo from packages and when I tried #openvpn
--config <config file> it didn't work.

The directory was not in my $PATH so I had to specify
/usr/local/sbin/openvpn  --config /etc/openvpn/client.conf

I also get this OpenSSL error that I can't figure out how to fix:

'Cannot load CA certificate file /etc/ssl/ca.crt path (null)
(SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations) (OpenSSL)'

I made sure that client.conf points to where I put the key and cert.  I
put everything under /etc/openvpn.  Is this the right place?

Thanks for your help!