[gentoo-user] Re: Can't restart or stop openvpn: it is "already started, but inactive"

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-02-16, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:41:43 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> There must be something short of a reboot that will allow me to
>> restart a failed openvpn client?
>> 
>> # rc-service openvpn.wr7 stop
>>  * Stopping openvpn.wr7 ...
>>  *
>> VPNPID='/var/run/openvpn.wr7.pid'                                            
>>                                       [ !! ]
>>  * ERROR: openvpn.wr7 failed to stop
>
> rc-service openvpn.wr7 zap?

Thanks.

I had resorted to just removing /var/run/openrc/inactive/<whatever>

Now that I know what to look for, I find it's on the openrc-run man
page.  (I'd never heard of 'openrc-run' before, so had no idea to look
at that page.)

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