Re: up-to-date Jessie, cannot turn off OpenVPN tunnel

[Curt Howland <Howland@Priss.com>]

Nevermind, I found that I had renamed the init.d script but systemd
doesn't use it, so it was not sending the correctly named command to
systemd to shut it off.

# systemctl                # listed running services
# systemctl stop openvpn.service   # service stopped.

If I start it by hand with the init script, then using the init script
to stop it works.

I beg Debian-user's pardon for this systemd waste of time.

Curt-

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have OpenVPN with a tunnel that I use occasionally, and since the
> upgrade to Jessie, with systemd, I cannot stop it from starting on
> boot, and once running I cannot stop it.
>
> The only way to turn the tunnel off is to uninstall OpenVPN, and then
> reinstall it the next time I want to use it.
>
> So, any hints as to what command to issue to stop the damned systemd
> that's running OpenVPN?
>
> # /etc/init.d/openvpn stop
> [ ok ] Stopping openvpn (via systemctl): openvpn.service.
>
> This does not work. The tunnel remains up.
>
> Curt-
>
>
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