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Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd



Daniel Dickinson <debian@daniel.thecshore.com> writes:

> On 10/09/14 02:52 PM, Noel Torres wrote:
>> 
>> Yes. Why to install OpenVPN which might not work? aptitude will tell you that 
>> they are not coinstallable and the sysadmin will then have the option of 
>> switching init system to a non default one, knowing what that means, and 
>> having a working OpenVPN config, instead of (possibly) having a failing config 
>> and no clue about why.
>> 
> +1 with the caveat that this is not a *solution* but a recognition of
> the fact of the matter until the situation is resolved by the much
> harder task of geting openvpn's config to work with systemd.

OpenVPN works just fine with systemd. Its init script does not, but for
quite a few use cases, that is not an issue: the package just comes
disabled by default, where the admin has to do some local configuration.
There is no problem with that, at all.

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