OVPN script not working

[dillthedog]

@MarchHare

I thought systemd wasn’t an option with the latest version.

Not that I’m aware of.

To run openvpn at startup:

Starting up automatically (re-)starting the VPN

It’s very easy in OSMC - and we do use systemd. To enable OpenVPN to run at startup, run: sudo systemctl enable openvpn To specify which config file to run, you need to: 1 Place the config file in /etc/openvpn and give it a .conf suffix, not .ovpn. 2 Edit file /etc/default/openvpn and add a line AUTOSTART=“NL” so that it will look for file /etc/openvpn/NL.conf. Then restart and see if it’s working as you expect.

To enable automatic restart:

Confusion over VPN client setup

H Tom, You can do away with your own script to check if openvpn is running. Systemd does it automatically with just one or two lines. If you’re interested, using sudo edit file /lib/systemd/system/openvpn@.service and in the [Service] section add: Restart=always RestartSec=5 The second line is optional. Then run: sudo systemctl daemon-reload and the new line(s) will take effect next time you start openvpn. BTW, Restart=always doesn’t mean that you can’t stop openvpn yourself. It is also ef…