Openvpn: how to start at login?

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sat Aug 25 11:48:12 UTC 2012


On 08/25/2012 07:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I have a script
> ---------------------------------
> #! /bin/sh
> sudo systemctl restart openvpn at client.service
> ---------------------------------
> which I run (under Fedora-17) if vpn is not connected when I logon
> (normally after hibernating).
>
> I'm wondering if there is a "systemctl enable" or similar command
> which will do this more simply?

Which desktop do you use?  KDE has an Autostart capability.  You could modify your script to detect if the connection is active and if so do nothing and if not run the "systemctl restart" which you currently run by hand...which is what I think you are doing.

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