I had a closer look, and the dependencies should also list $syslog, as the openvpn daemon log to syslog. Here is a better patch, which make sure openvpn is started after the syslog collector is started.
diff -ur openvpn-2.1~rc19/debian/openvpn.init.d openvpn-2.1~rc19-pere/debian/openvpn.init.d --- openvpn-2.1~rc19/debian/openvpn.init.d 2009-08-03 15:43:23.000000000 +0200 +++ openvpn-2.1~rc19-pere/debian/openvpn.init.d 2009-08-03 15:41:49.654115000 +0200 @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: vpn -# Required-Start: $network $local_fs -# Required-Stop: $network $local_fs +# Required-Start: $network $remote_fs $syslog +# Required-Stop: $network $remote_fs $syslog # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Openvpn VPN service Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
