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. 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.
HTH, :-) Marko