Debian 8 openvpn初始化脚本忽略配置文件

Question

when I run openvpn with 'openvpn server.conf' from '/etc/openvpn' everything works fine. But when i run '/etc/init.d/openvpn start' or '/etc/init.d/openvpn start server' or '/etc/init.d/openvpn start server.conf' the server.conf configfile is ignored. Why?

Hope someone can help me.

Regards.

Answer 1

First thing to check is systemd status (Debian 8 is running with systemd if I'm correct).

So you can do: systemctl status openvpn and check the output.

1. Active: active (running) => here it doesn't help much
2. Active: active (exited) => it has been started properly and exited with no error, common reason could be that there is no config file found.
3. Active: failed (Result: exit-code) => it has been started and failed with error. THen you can do a journalctl -xe and check the messages.

Let us know the result of this.

Answer 2

Finally I found a solution. Instead of using /etc/init.d/openvpn restart you can use

service openvpn restart or

systemctl restart openvpn.service

to start/stop/restart/reload services. https://stackoverflow.com/a/28930361/6217547 led me to this solution.