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--- Begin Message ---
Package: openvpn
Version: 2.3.4-5
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I'm trying to start openvpn on a new install (with known good config
files) and the program is never started -- I'm not getting any log
entries from Openvpn so I asume systemd is never starting it.
My openvpn config-file is named "server.conf in /etc/openvpn.
The following actions were executed in order:
root@tux14:/etc/openvpn# systemctl start openvpn.service
root@tux14:/etc/openvpn# ps auxwww | grep openvpn
root 11768 0.0 0.5 15156 2112 pts/0 S+ 18:04 0:00 grep openvpn
root@tux14:/etc/openvpn# systemctl status openvpn.service
● openvpn.service - OpenVPN service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/openvpn.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Sun 2015-07-19 18:04:43 CEST; 20s ago
Process: 11765 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 11765 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
root@tux14:/etc/openvpn# systemctl stop openvpn.service
root@tux14:/etc/openvpn# systemctl status openvpn.service
● openvpn.service - OpenVPN service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/openvpn.service; enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Sun 2015-07-19 18:05:12 CEST; 5s ago
Process: 11765 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 11765 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
I'd expect that systemd starts openvpn or issues an error message.
Looks like the service was never started, no logs from openvpn in syslog.
The config-file is named "server.conf" in /etc/openvpn.
Same when I start via /etc/init.d script:
root@tux14:~# /etc/init.d/openvpn start
[ ok ] Starting openvpn (via systemctl): openvpn.service.
root@tux14:~# ps auxwww | grep openvpn
root 11893 0.0 0.5 15156 2044 pts/1 S+ 18:18 0:00 grep openvpn
root@tux14:~# systemctl status openvpn.service
● openvpn.service - OpenVPN service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/openvpn.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Sun 2015-07-19 18:17:56 CEST; 1min 17s ago
Process: 11873 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 11873 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
And the old method of starting a *specific* OpenVPN instance via the
config-file name also doesn't work:
root@tux14:~# /etc/init.d/openvpn start server
[ ok ] Starting openvpn (via systemctl): openvpn.service.
root@tux14:~# systemctl status openvpn.service
● openvpn.service - OpenVPN service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/openvpn.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Sun 2015-07-19 18:17:56 CEST; 2min 18s ago
Process: 11873 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 11873 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
root@tux14:~# ps auxwww | grep openvpn
root 11924 0.0 0.5 15156 2048 pts/1 S+ 18:20 0:00 grep openvpn
Finally: Skipping systemd and starting directly via the old method works fine:
root@tux14:~# _SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT=1 /etc/init.d/openvpn start
[ ok ] Starting virtual private network daemon: server.
root@tux14:~# ps auxwww | grep openvpn
nobody 11977 0.0 0.6 30660 2364 ? Ss 18:22 0:00
/usr/sbin/openvpn --writepid /run/openvpn/server.pid --daemon ovpn-server --cd
/etc/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/server.conf
root 11996 0.0 0.5 15156 2164 pts/1 S+ 18:22 0:00 grep openvpn
systemd still displays the old status:
root@tux14:~# systemctl status openvpn.service
● openvpn.service - OpenVPN service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/openvpn.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Sun 2015-07-19 18:17:56 CEST; 6min ago
Process: 11873 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 11873 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
And systemd obviously doesn't know anything about openvpn:
root@tux14:~# systemctl stop openvpn
root@tux14:~# ps auxwww | grep openvpn
nobody 11977 0.0 0.6 30660 2364 ? Ss 18:22 0:00
/usr/sbin/openvpn --writepid /run/openvpn/server.pid --daemon ovpn-server --cd
/etc/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/server.conf
root 12002 0.0 0.5 15156 2144 pts/1 S+ 18:25 0:00 grep openvpn
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages openvpn depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56
ii init-system-helpers 1.22
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59
ii iproute2 3.16.0-2
ii libc6 2.19-18
ii liblzo2-2 2.08-1.2
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1
ii libpkcs11-helper1 1.11-2
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1k-3+deb8u1
Versions of packages openvpn recommends:
ii easy-rsa 2.2.2-1
Versions of packages openvpn suggests:
ii openssl 1.0.1k-3+deb8u1
pn resolvconf <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/openvpn changed:
AUTOSTART="server"
OPTARGS=""
OMIT_SENDSIGS=0
-- debconf information:
openvpn/create_tun: false
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Version: 2.3.4-5
Not a bug, but a feature :-)
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