Hi Nelson,
Nelson Teixeira wrote:
Hello,
Sorry by writting directly to devel list, but I'm not being able to
solve this problem I'm in and thought maybe you would be so kind to
take a look. Thanks in advance :)
I'm having trouble in finding how to end openvpn programmatically in
windows. If I run openvpn in command line, I can end it graciously
with F4. What I want to do is to make my python program (or batch
file/executable program, can be in C/C++) do the same thing: end it
gracioulsy, allow for openvpn to do it's cleanup tasks.
Yet the only thing available to stop the process is taskkill /F /PID
<PID_NUMBER> that ends it immediately without allowing openvpn to do
it's cleanup tasks. If I don't use /F switch, it just ignores the
command. I tried also with /T (Tree Kill). No luck.
I also tried to get openvpn pid and send it a signal using this python
code (it's python but it's easily understandable by anyone:
the "proper" way to do this is to use the management interface; the
openvpn-gui code does just that (file openvpn.c):
725 /* Construct command line */
726 _sntprintf_0(cmdline, _T("openvpn "
727 "--config \"%s\" %s --service %s 0 --log%s \"%s\" "
728 "--management 127.0.0.10 %hd stdin --auth-retry interact "
729 "--management-hold --management-query-passwords --tls-exit"),
you can then use the same management interface to properly shut down
openvpn again.
HTH,
JJK
