Thank you for the help Tom. I’m still struggling please forgive any noob mistakes that are in here.
First: the VPN kill switch instructions are great, I followed them verbatim and believe I have it working. I did have some trouble in handling spaces in the name of of my US California.conf file but think I worked that out using openvpn@USx20California or etc/openvpn/US\ California.conf).
Here are the outputs of
sudo iptables -S
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo iptables -S
-P INPUT ACCEPT
-P FORWARD ACCEPT
-P OUTPUT ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -i tun0 -o eth0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -i eth0 -o tun0 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -o tun0 -m comment --comment vpn -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p icmp -m comment --comment icmp -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -d 192.168.1.0/24 -o eth0 -m comment --comment lan -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 1198 -m comment --comment openvpn -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 22 -m comment --comment ssh -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 123 -m comment --comment ntp -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -m comment --comment dns -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -m comment --comment dns -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -o eth0 -j DROP
Then I ran
/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f
and my terminal froze…
if I run the the transmission status here is what I get:
sudo service transmission status
● transmission.service - Transmission BitTorrent Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/transmission.service; enabled; vendor pre
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2018-07-15 22:14:36 PDT; 15min ago
Process: 777 ExecStart=/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-error --allowed *
Process: 345 ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 10 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 777 (code=killed, signal=KILL)
Jul 15 11:00:26 osmc systemd[1]: Starting Transmission BitTorrent Daemon...
Jul 15 22:13:06 osmc systemd[1]: transmission.service: Start operation timed out
Jul 15 22:14:36 osmc systemd[1]: transmission.service: State 'stop-final-sigterm
Jul 15 22:14:36 osmc systemd[1]: transmission.service: Killing process 777 (tran
Jul 15 22:14:36 osmc systemd[1]: transmission.service: Main process exited, code
Jul 15 22:14:36 osmc systemd[1]: Failed to start Transmission BitTorrent Daemon.
Jul 15 22:14:36 osmc systemd[1]: transmission.service: Unit entered failed state
Jul 15 22:14:36 osmc systemd[1]: transmission.service: Failed with result 'timeo
lines 1-15/15 (END)
are there other logs that would help with trouble shooting. pleae remember I’m very new to this, so there could easily be something obvious and simple that I’m missing.