[HOWTO] OSMC/Rasp Pi as OpenVPN client

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Hey,
I ended up creating a simple startup script which gets the job done…

Just create a script:
sudo vi /etc/init.d/startOpenVPN
with

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/startOpenVPN
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          openVPN
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Simple script to start a program at boot
# Description:       Start / stop OpenVPN at boot / shutdown.
### END INIT INFO

openvpn /{YOUR_PATH}/{yourOwn}.ovpn

(edit the last line and make sure the path to your .ovpn file is correct)

and just make executable:
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/startOpenVPN

and register it to start at startup:

sudo update-rc.d startOpenVPN defaults

reboot the Pi and check if it has started:
ps aux | grep openvpn

For what I need, it gets the job done. Thanks, again, to the OP for his tweaks!

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