> -----Original Message----- > From: Reindl Harald [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 17:17 > To: Michael D. Berger > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] F16_64: attempt at OpenVPN > server service file > > > > Am 26.11.2011 22:36, schrieb Michael D. Berger: > > I see you use "Restart=always". Do I understand correctly that > > whenever you stop the service it will restart? That is what "man > > systemd.service" says. What if you really want to stop it, as I > > might? > > than i type "systemctl stop whatever.service" > > Restart is triggered if they process goes away and in the > case of "Always" this happens even if the process gives back > a successfull 0 like after "killall processname" > So I gather that Restart is triggered only if the process goes away ***for reasons other than a stop having been issued***. I suggest that the man pages be modified to say that.
[...] > because i have no idea what this does > > > I have a complex iptables that must be changed a little > depending on > > whether the vpn is running. The command "setIptVpn" > > runs a sed to takes care of that, and obviously, iptables must be > > restarted whenever that is done. > > why? > > if the bridge and openvpn are not running the devide does not > exist, so why is there anything to modify in firewall rules? The details are not important; it should work, and it idoes n my scripts that run without systemd. > > > As for restarting the network, that appears to usually (but not > > always) be required whenever the vpn is shutdown. If there > is another > > way to get things working after shutting down vpn, I would > be happy to > > hear it. I tried ifdown and ifup, but it didn't work. > > Did you try to ping google.com after your vpn starts on boot? > > I see no difference between yours and mine that would solve that > > problem. I imagine that another dependency is required. > > i am not sure what excatly you are doing with openvpn > > in my case i connect to the company network and all traffic > to company-LÖAN-IPs goes thorugh the tunnel, BUT all other > traffic does NOT use openvpn because why in the world i > should route public traffic over a vpn-tunnel and from there > out in the world? > > > It doesn't make any difference what I am doing. I run openvpn as a daemon on a box that must otherwise function normally. In SysV, corresponding scripts work with no problem. I guess I should run openvpn as SysV until this can be made to work. Mike. -- Michael D. Berger [email protected] http://www.rosemike.net/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
