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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:02 pm    Post subject: How to get OpenVPN to start Reply with quote

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.

Any idea on how to go about this?

Thank you in advance.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
}

openvpn_stop() {
    echo "Stoping Openvpn Tunnels"
    killall openvpn 2&>1 /dev/null
    rm -rf $piddir/*.pid
    return 0
}

openvpn_restart() {
    openvpn_stop
    sleep 1
    openvpn_start
}

case "$1" in
'start')
        openvpn_start
        ;;
'status')
        openvpn_status
        ;;
'stop')
        openvpn_stop
  ;;
'restart')
        openvpn_restart
        ;;
    *)
        echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart"
esac

Also in webmin check module config

Code:
start_cmd=/etc/rc.d/rc.openvpn start
openvpn_pid_path=/var/run
openvpn_servers_subdir=servers
zip_cmd=/usr/bin/zip
stop_cmd=/etc/rc.d/rc.openvpn stop
openvpn_path=/usr/sbin/openvpn
openvpn_clients_subdir=clients
log_lines=200
openvpn_version=2.0.9
openvpn_keys_subdir=keys
openvpn_home=/etc/openvpn
openssl_version=0.9.8k
openssl_path=/usr/bin/openssl
openssl_home=/etc/openvpn/openvpn-ssl.cnf
down_root_plugin=/usr/local/webmin/openvpn/ovpn_plugin/openvpn/down-root.so
br_end_cmd=/usr/local/webmin/openvpn/br_scripts/bridge_end
br_start_cmd=/usr/local/webmin/openvpn/br_scripts/bridge_start
tail_cmd=
log_refresh=
default_server=


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

gerasimos_h

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