On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:58:02 +0100, David Sommerseth <open...@sf.lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote:
>On 17/01/2022 23:37, Bo Berglund wrote: >[..snip...] >> I have two server instances running with and without Internet routing from >> conf >> files server.conf and serverlocal.conf. >> I want to change them to the new handling. >> >> So to switch over I assume could do as follows: >> >> 1) sudo systemctl stop openvpn >> 2) Edit /etc/default/openvpn and comment out the AUTOSTART= line >> 3) sudo mkdir /etc/openvpn/client ; sudo mkdir /etc/openvpn/server >> 4) sudo mv /etc/openvpn/server*.conf /etc/openvpn/server/ >> 5) sudo systemctl enable openvpn-server@server >> 6) sudo systemctl enable openvpn-server@serverlocal >> 7) sudo systemctl start openvpn-server@server >> 8) sudo systemctl start openvpn-server@serverlocal >> >> Would this be all that is needed? > >This looks reasonable. You can combine the enable/start operations in >one go, for simplicity: > > systemctl enable --now openvpn-server@server > >The '--now' argument will run the 'start' command for you. > >> Or is there some other cleanup I need to perform in order to get it done >> properly? >> Some other service I need to stop? > >Yes, you need to ensure that 'openvpn.service' and any >'openvpn@*.service' have been stopped. This is easy to check by running: > > systemctl status openvpn.service openvpn@*.service > > >You can also ensure they are all stopped and disabled in a similar way >as enabling services: > > systemctl disable --now openvpn.service openvpn@*.service OK, so I have now run through the commands I listed. After all is said and done I now have this (and the client connects fine): sudo systemctl | grep openvpn openvpn-server@server.service loaded active running OpenVPN service for server openvpn-server@serverlocal.service loaded active running OpenVPN service for serverlocal system-openvpn.slice loaded active active system-openvpn.slice system-openvpn\x2dserver.slice loaded active active system-openvpn\x2dserver.slice What are these *.slice items??? -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
