Openvpn: how to start at login?

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/25/2012 11:55 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Thanks for your response.
> But that's essentially what I do.
> I can see if vpn is active.
> If it isn't I run the script.
> (I do run KDE, incidentally.)

I don't get from what you said if your process is a manual or automatic process.  Which?

>
> But surely there should be a way of enabling this service,
> as there used to be?
> Wouldn't it be much simpler just to default to client,
> which I imagine is what 99% of users want?
> Why can't openvpn run like every other service?

I may have misunderstood....but your openvpn at client.service brings up a tunnel, right?  I've never tried getting the client side to create a tunnel on login.  Is it safe to say that the tunnel is created on system boot?

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