Stop Openvpn via command line

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Hi. I set up Brian Hornsby’s addon on a vero 4K for my parents which has been working great. However, they do have a tendency to power their devices off at the switch and occasionally Brian Hornsby’s addon will fail to start the vpn connection in this scenario, which I wasn’t comfortable with. For that reason, I installed the vpn via the command line instead which is rock solid in this scenario. I set the vpn to auto start by editing /etc/default/openvpn and all works great. However, if I needed to stop the vpn connection, how would I go about it? Given my lack of knowledge, and that I already have autostart enabled, I’m wary of using systemctl stop/start commands as I’m not sure if this will create multiple instances of the vpn connection when starting up again. Thanks.

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Hi,

sudo systemctl stop openvpn

Thanks Tom.

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Thanks Tom. And would the autostart command already in /etc/default/openvpn then restart the vpn on reboot without having to issue any other commands?Thanks.

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Hi,

Yes it should restart on reboot. I can advise how to start manually if you issue:

cat /etc/default/openvpn | paste-log

And post the link provided here.

Thanks Tom.

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Brilliant Tom, thank you - that worked. Regarding starting manually, here is the log https://paste.osmc.tv/izedihirid

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Hi,

You should be able to manually start openvpn with:

sudo systemctl start openvpn

The reason as I asked to see /etc/default/openvpn, I have instances where the above command doesn’t always initiate the vpn connection, a work around for this would to be to issue:

sudo systemctl stop openvpn && sudo systemctl start openvpn-client@pia_Ireland

To avoid multiple instances just sure you issue an stop, before start or just reboot.

Thanks Tom.

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So helpful, thanks again.

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