Bert's notes » systemd https://a20.net/bert Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:47:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.5 OpenVPN client connection not started on Ubuntu 16.04 https://a20.net/bert/2016/09/27/openvpn-client-connection-not-started-on-ubuntu-16-04/ https://a20.net/bert/2016/09/27/openvpn-client-connection-not-started-on-ubuntu-16-04/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:24:05 +0000 https://a20.net/bert/?p=78 Ubuntu 16.04 has systemd as its init system. Usually getting an OpenVPN client configuration going, is a matter of dropping the .conf or .ovpn file together with key and certs, into /etc/openvpn. On Ubuntu 16.04, you can ‘service openvpn restart’ all you like, but no connection is being initiated, and the logs stay silent.

Solution:

  1. edit /etc/default/openvpn, uncomment AUTOSTART=”all”
  2. sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  3. sudo service openvpn restart

The comments still say “all” is the default, but that is no longer true in Ubuntu 16.04.

It is also possible to systemd-manage individual server/client configurations, in the style of ‘service openvpn@<my-config> start/stop/status’. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Openvpn#Setting_up_a_Linux_OpenVPN_client.

 

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