Package: openvpn Version: 2.4.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
When an openvpn client is failing, it gets killed. openvpn 2.4 is arriving with a client folder '/etc/openvpn/client/' (and a server folder). So I put client files and the server files in their own folder. I found that the matching systemd commands are : systemctl enable openvpn-client@yyy.service systemctl enable openvpn-server@xxx.service At boot, if server is not reachable, the service is killed: # Feb 7 21:08:57 lemon openvpn[4925]: SIGTERM[hard,init_instance] received, process exiting # Feb 7 21:08:57 lemon systemd[1]: openvpn-client@yyy.service: Unit entered failed state. # Feb 7 21:08:57 lemon systemd[1]: openvpn-client@yyy.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. Expected result : service not killed If server is not started/reachable at startup, but became later. I expect the client to attempt later. I tried: 1/ systemctl enable openvpn@client/client-ordinateur.service -> Failed to lookup unit file state: Invalid argument 2/ in /etc/default/openvpn : AUTOSTART="yyy" -> no start, no log (probably conf not found) 3/ in /etc/default/openvpn : AUTOSTART="client/yyy" -> /lib/systemd/system-generators/openvpn-generator failed with error code 1. 4/ I put client files in /etc/openvpn/ and systemctl enable openvpn@yyy.service -> service is not killed even if failing to connect to server But, I have to place file outside of client folder Maybe it is not a bug, but a feature (to stop failing service). With defautl behaviour, openvpn client is attempting to reconnect with incremental delay. I expect to place files in client folder and have a better management of the failure case. Regards, -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (90, 'unstable'), (85, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages openvpn depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.60 ii init-system-helpers 1.47 ii iproute2 4.9.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii liblz4-1 0.0~r131-2 ii liblzo2-2 2.08-1.2 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.5 ii libpkcs11-helper1 1.21-1 ii libssl1.0.2 1.0.2k-1 ii libsystemd0 232-15 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 Versions of packages openvpn recommends: ii easy-rsa 2.2.2-2 Versions of packages openvpn suggests: ii openssl 1.1.0c-2 ii resolvconf 1.79 -- debconf information: openvpn/create_tun: false
