Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:02 pm Post subject: How to get OpenVPN to start
I've subscribe to an OpenVPN service to bypass my ISP bandwith throttle issue on torrent download.
I had installed all the necessary files into the /etc/openvpn folder (but did not put it into the respective folders for some of the files, but I just dump everything the main folder). Essentially, I need to start the OpenVPN service on SMS so that I could use its Torrent Flux to download stuff.
I tried using webmin OpenVPN to start it but it does not work.
No idea how to go about this. I tried this command '/etc/init.d/openvpn start
' but it does not work unlike in Ubuntu Server.
There should be an /etc/rc.d/rc.openvpn if not use that one
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Start/stop/restart all the openvpn processes
#by Giancarlo Razzolini
#openvpn binary
openvpn=/usr/sbin/openvpn
#piddir
piddir=/var/run
#conf dir
confdir=/etc/openvpn
openvpn_start() {
#for all the conf files in the openvpn dir, start a new process
cd $confdir
echo "Starting Openvpn Tunnels:"
for conf in `ls *.conf` ; do
echo -e "\t$openvpn $confdir/$conf"
$openvpn --writepid /var/run/`echo $conf | cut -d. -f1`.pid --daemon --config $conf
done
return 0
}
openvpn_status() {
cd $piddir
ls *.pid 1&>2 /dev/null
if [ "$?" != "0" ] ; then
echo "No openvpn process is running."
else
for process in `ls *.pid` ; do
echo Process `cat $process` is running...
done
fi
return 0
}
What /var/log/openvpn.log says ?
If it says
Cannot open file key file 'keys/shared.key': No such file or directory (errno=2)
then do
cd /etc/openvpn/keys
openvpn --genkey --secret shared.key
If it says
Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: No such file or directory (errno=2)
then do
mkdir -p /dev/net
mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200
chmod 600 /dev/net/tun
If you are getting an error other than those two, post it here
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