[Mageia-dev] systemd and openvpn

[AL13N]

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/)