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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] systemd and openvpn</H1>
    <B>AL13N</B> 
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    <I>Sat Oct 27 00:45:11 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Op vrijdag 26 oktober 2012 16:36:50 schreef Richard Couture:
&gt;<i> More fun with systemd
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> When I try to start my openvpn client with
</I>&gt;<i> systemctl restart openvpn.service
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I get
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">root at AbelLap</A> system]# systemctl restart openvpn.service
</I>&gt;<i> Failed to issue method call: Unit openvpn.service failed to load:
</I>&gt;<i> Invalid argument. See system logs and 'systemctl status openvpn.service'
</I>&gt;<i> for details.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> systemctl status openvpn.service
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> gives me
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">root at AbelLap</A> system]# systemctl status openvpn.service
</I>&gt;<i> openvpn.service
</I>&gt;<i> 	  Loaded: error (Reason: Invalid argument)
</I>&gt;<i> 	  Active: inactive (dead)
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> HOWEVER when I go to /etc/init.d and issue the command
</I>&gt;<i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">root at AbelLap</A> system]# cd /etc/init.d
</I>&gt;<i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">root at AbelLap</A> init.d]# ./openvpn restart
</I>&gt;<i> Shutting down openvpn:                                          [  OK  ]
</I>&gt;<i> Starting openvpn:                                               [  OK  ]
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> everything works fine
</I>&gt;<i> Am I being super twit or something?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I am writing a tutorial on openVPN to present to the international
</I>&gt;<i> Festival of Free Software in Puerto Vallarta <A HREF="http://www.fslvallarta.org">http://www.fslvallarta.org</A>
</I>&gt;<i>   next week and thought to use MGA to indirectly promote it's use.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Thanks
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Richard
</I>

openvpn are now started per configfile:

you should use:

<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">openvpn at myconffile.service</A>

instead (if you have a myconffile.conf in /etc/openvpn/)
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