Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday, 26. August 2012. 0.00.16 Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> > In what sense openvpn *doesn't* run like every other service? >> >> Before systemd/systemctl came along >> I just used to say "chkconfig openvpn on". >> I'm just asking why I can't do the equivalent today? >> >> As far as I know, one can "systemctl enable" every other service. > > Well, if you take another look at the link I gave you, > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Openvpn#Working_with_systemd > > you will see that after the server setup instructions, there are also the > client setup instructions. You are right, of course, (I assumed, since the document gave instructions for starting a client, and then went over to instructions for a server that this was all there was. I should have been more thorough.) > Assuming that you have already configured keys > and the openvpn configuration file /etc/openvpn/MyClient.conf, you might > be interested in these particular steps: > > 4. cd /lib/systemd/system > 5. ln openvpn@.service openvpn@MyClient.service > 6. systemctl enable openvpn@MyClient.service > 7. systemctl start openvpn@MyClient.service > > This worked for me, openvpn client service starts automatically at boot, > and never shuts down. If it doesn't work for you, look at > /var/log/messages and tell us what went wrong. Yes, thank you very much. This seems to answer my question comprehensively. The only excuse I have is that other people must have missed this, since various complicated suggestions have been put forward. And I do think that this link should probably be made by default, since the instructions for setting up an openvpn client assume throughout that the config file is called client.conf . Perhaps with a note in the documentation about what to do if one is running more than one openvpn service. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- 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
