On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 13:40 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Louis Lagendijk wrote: > > >> I can start openvpn with > >> [tim@blanche ~]$ sudo systemctl start openvpn@client.service > >> (My openvpn config file is /etc/openvpn/client.conf , > >> which I think is more or less standard.) > >> > >> But I don't know how to turn it on permanently, eg I get > >> [tim@blanche ~]$ sudo systemctl enable openvpn@client.service > >> Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory > > > Do you want to run as client or as server? Clients are run from > > NetworkManager (I am running openvpn under F16 that way). > > Is this essential? > > I'd much rather not involve NM, if that is possible. > I find openvpn much more reliable than NM, to put it mildly. > NM usually works for me, but on the occasions when it does not > it is a nightmare. well, I only use NM on my laptop and it works well there. On my desktop with trunked vlans NM is useless.... So I normally still use the the old /etc/init.d/network. > > And there is > > a /lib/systemd/system/openvpn@.service so you have to manually creeate > > a /etc/systemd/system/openvpn@<yourconfigname>.service and enable that. > > Have a look at the vncserver service file for some details > > Thanks. > I'll certainly have a look. Should work for a permanent client connection as well... It just starts the openvpn session according to the config. But I more or less assumed an on demand client connection that is user managed.... and there NM works ok. > But I'd have to say that while VNC is not in the same class of horror as NM, > I've always found it problematical to use, > particularly when looking at a Windows machine. > > :-) NM simply assumes too much and thinks it knows better than I what I need. I don't think we will ever become friends. But for this specific case (an on demand openvpn connection on a laptop) it works great. It even handled resolv.conf changes correctly. And well, VNC does not seem to fit into the Xorg system. That makes it a pain sometimes -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
