Is anyone running this?
There does not appear to be an entry for openvpn in /etc/init.d/ .
Why is this?
(Starting openvpn from the command line does not work.)
Any suggestions?
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11-10-2011, 11:45 AM
Joachim Backes
OpenVPN under Fedora-16
On 11/10/2011 01:38 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is anyone running this?
> There does not appear to be an entry for openvpn in /etc/init.d/ .
> Why is this?
> (Starting openvpn from the command line does not work.)
> Any suggestions?
>
Hi Tim,
I'm running F16 openvpn not server controlled, but by cmd line:
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11-10-2011, 11:51 AM
Reindl Harald
OpenVPN under Fedora-16
"/etc/init.d" is legacy sysvinit!
look in /lib/systemd/system/
there are openvpn@-services i never understood how they are working
and so i rebuilt the whole package throwing this away and replace
it with my own systemd-unit for F15 where it was not converted
but you can create your own systemd-units and enable them
like "systemctl enable openvpn.service"
Am 10.11.2011 13:38, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
> Is anyone running this?
> There does not appear to be an entry for openvpn in /etc/init.d/ .
> Why is this?
> (Starting openvpn from the command line does not work.)
> Any suggestions?
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11-10-2011, 12:32 PM
Timothy Murphy
OpenVPN under Fedora-16
Joachim Backes wrote:
>> Is anyone running this?
>> There does not appear to be an entry for openvpn in /etc/init.d/ .
>> Why is this?
>> (Starting openvpn from the command line does not work.)
>> Any suggestions?
> I'm running F16 openvpn not server controlled, but by cmd line:
> /usr/sbin/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/<configfile>
Thanks very much.
That does indeed work.
-----------------------------------
[tim@blanche ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/client.conf
[tim@blanche ~]$ ping helen-vpn [On different desktop]
PING helen-vpn (192.168.5.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from helen-vpn (192.168.5.1): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=223 ms
-----------------------------------
I thought I had tried this, but maybe I didn't do it as root.
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11-10-2011, 01:22 PM
Mike Wohlgemuth
OpenVPN under Fedora-16
On 11/10/2011 07:38 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is anyone running this?
> There does not appear to be an entry for openvpn in /etc/init.d/ .
> Why is this?
> (Starting openvpn from the command line does not work.)
> Any suggestions?
>
It looks like openvpn has been migrated to systemd. The old command:
service openvpn start
should still start it, but the systemd style command is
systemctl start openvpn.service
The systemd file that is the closest equivalent to /etc/init.d/openvpn is
/lib/systemd/system/openvpn@.service
Mike
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11-10-2011, 01:36 PM
Timothy Murphy
OpenVPN under Fedora-16
Mike Wohlgemuth wrote:
> It looks like openvpn has been migrated to systemd. The old command:
>
> service openvpn start
>
> should still start it, but the systemd style command is
>
> systemctl start openvpn.service
>
> The systemd file that is the closest equivalent to /etc/init.d/openvpn is
>
> /lib/systemd/system/openvpn@.service
Yes, I found this after looking at
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744244>
In fact I have to run
[tim@blanche ~]$ sudo systemctl status openvpn@client.service
because my config file is /etc/openvpn/client.conf .
So the only remaining problem for me with Fedora-16
(but I'm afraid one that means I will stay with Fedora-15
until it is sorted) is KMail, with the dreaded
"Failed to fetch the resource collection"
which as far as I can see has baffled the greatest minds.
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01-05-2012, 11:10 PM
Timothy Murphy
Openvpn under Fedora-16
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
The whole thing seems to me extraordinarily badly documented,
even by Linux standards.
Or is it a bug?
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01-06-2012, 10:40 AM
Louis Lagendijk
Openvpn under Fedora-16
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 01:10 +0100, Timothy Murphy 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
>
> The whole thing seems to me extraordinarily badly documented,
> even by Linux standards.
> Or is it a bug?
>
Do you want to run as client or as server? Clients are run from
NetworkManager (I am running openvpn under F16 that way). 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
And, yes, I agree: documentation is pretty thin
Louis
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01-06-2012, 11:40 AM
Timothy Murphy
Openvpn under Fedora-16
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.
A recent addition to the NM farce is the appearance of a little window
in the middle of the screen, I think entitled "Secrets",
which asks me to enter a password but unfortunately rejects any input
(ie I cannot write in the space provided).
If I press on Cancel the window simply re-appears, endlessly.
In my view, the apparent decision to allow NM to play a central role
in communication in Fedora is a serious error.
I wish NM would concentrate on its primary task, namely to facilitate WiFi.
> 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.
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.
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01-06-2012, 12:21 PM
Reindl Harald
Openvpn under Fedora-16
Am 06.01.2012 12:40, schrieb Louis Lagendijk:
> Do you want to run as client or as server?
uninteresting because only the openvpn-config makes
the difference running the service as server or client
> Clients are run from NetworkManager
you will wonder but there are people out there which
uninstalled NM completly since nobody needs additional
crap for static connections
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