On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 07:00:56PM +0300, Samuli Seppänen wrote: > Hi, > > There is a question at the end, so scroll down if you're impatient :). > Anyways, some of you may know I've been looking into NSSM: > > <http://nssm.cc> > > The idea is to use NSSM to replace the OpenVPN Service Wrapper > ("openvpnserv.exe") which is buggy, unmaintained, causes all sorts of > issues and seems disintegrate more and more with every new Windows release. > > NSSM on is actively maintained[1] general purpose service manager which > can launch an arbitrary program and restart it if it crashes. NSSM > registers itself as a Windows service and manages a set of services, > which can be arbitrary programs. In our case nssm.exe would run a > command such as this: > > ..\bin\openvpn.exe --config default.ovpn > > The working directory would be set to C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config. >
If changing the OpenVPN Windows stuff, please also support having config files under user's profile directory, not only in the system-wide config-directory. -- Pasi
