[Mageia-dev] systemd and openvpn

Sat Oct 27 00:45:11 CEST 2012

Op vrijdag 26 oktober 2012 16:36:50 schreef Richard Couture:
+> More fun with systemd
+> 
+> When I try to start my openvpn client with
+> systemctl restart openvpn.service
+> 
+> I get
+> 
+> [root at AbelLap system]# systemctl restart openvpn.service
+> Failed to issue method call: Unit openvpn.service failed to load:
+> Invalid argument. See system logs and 'systemctl status openvpn.service'
+> for details.
+> 
+> systemctl status openvpn.service
+> 
+> gives me
+> 
+> [root at AbelLap system]# systemctl status openvpn.service
+> openvpn.service
+> 	  Loaded: error (Reason: Invalid argument)
+> 	  Active: inactive (dead)
+> 
+> 
+> HOWEVER when I go to /etc/init.d and issue the command
+> [root at AbelLap system]# cd /etc/init.d
+> [root at AbelLap init.d]# ./openvpn restart
+> Shutting down openvpn:                                          [  OK  ]
+> Starting openvpn:                                               [  OK  ]
+> 
+> everything works fine
+> Am I being super twit or something?
+> 
+> I am writing a tutorial on openVPN to present to the international
+> Festival of Free Software in Puerto Vallarta http://www.fslvallarta.org
+>   next week and thought to use MGA to indirectly promote it's use.
+> 
+> Thanks
+> 
+> 
+> 
+> 
+> Richard
+
+
+openvpn are now started per configfile:
+
+you should use:
+
+openvpn at myconffile.service
+
+instead (if you have a myconffile.conf in /etc/openvpn/)
+