Hi I have a raspi 3 with osmc and I am trying to run openvpn to connect to my ipvanish account on boot. I have looked around on this forum but there are quite a few different posts that I am having trouble deciphering. Is there a relatively straight forward way? Thanks
Due to problems with systemd dependencies OpenVPN will not start correctly at boot. You need to do the following:
sudo nano /etc/rc.local
Then add the following lines just above exit 0
sleep 10
systemctl restart openvpn
So long as ypu have the IPVanish conf file in the right place OpenVPN will start and connect.
i got mine to work rather successfully without editing too much.
I created a directory /home/vpn
i put all of my vpn configurations into that directory
next i created a script named autovpn.sh
inside that script added the line to connect to the config file i put in there. here is what i put
#!/bin/bash
openvpn --config /home/vpn/toronto7.ovpn
save that file and i moved it to /etc/init.d
next hit it with the command “chmod ugo+x /etc/init.d/autovpn.sh”
lastly “update-rc.d autovpn.sh defaults”
i rebooted and everything worked perfectly, now assuming you have your config files correct you should have no issues doing it this way.
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Thanks so much, I will give these suggestions a try tonight!
thank you, this works for me
anytime my friend, enjoy 