Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2427

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OK, solved.

What happened was, that the network was not set up correctly at the time when openvpn was started.

I appears the DHCP on ethernet is really slow.

So I removed the /etc/rc2.d/S??openvpn file and set up the /etc/network/if-up.d/openvpn file (it was

already there, I just added a few lines) :

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$IFACE" == lo ]; then
exit 0

# I added this check to not run 2 copies of ovpn , one for lo and one for eth1

# the first (lo) would then hang there and the second would fail as the first

# holds the 1194 port
fi

OPENVPN=/etc/init.d/openvpn

# I added this to define the config name : /etc/openvpn/gamma.conf
IF_OPENVPN=gamma

if [ ! -x $OPENVPN ]; then
exit 0
fi

if [ -n "$IF_OPENVPN" ]; then
$OPENVPN start $IF_OPENVPN
fi

Regards,

David

PS: Any idea why I can't post to debian-user ?

From: Edson [mailto:4lists@gmail.com]
Sent: Thu 20-Sep-07 19:31
To: David Balazic; debian-user@lists.debian.org; openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Openvpn-users] /etc/init.d/openvpn does not work, manual is OK

Most problably this a problem concerned to the user used on the start process.

If You?re loged in as root and it start ok, try to make a ?su? to the user that openvpn runs and see what happens.

Edson.

From: openvpn-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:openvpn-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of David Balazic
Sent: quinta-feira, 20 de setembro de 2007 14:13
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Openvpn-users] /etc/init.d/openvpn does not work, manual is OK

Hi!

I've been using an OpenVPN client setup for months with success and now I decided to start it automatically during startup.

I copied the config file to /etc/openvpn/tun1.conf and the used key file also : /etc/openvpn/key

If I now start it with " /etc/init.d/openvpn start", it works fine.

But if I reboot, it connects to the VPN server, but does not set the routes (I have "route-gateway 10.4.0.1" and
"redirect-gateway def1" in the config file).

The last lines after boot are :
NET: Registered protocol familiy 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth1: no IPv6 routers present