On Tuesday 07 October 2008 11:14:22 Przemyslaw Iskra wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:57:48AM +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > > hi > > > > we had suffered one incident when one server did not came "up" because > > openvpn had server certificate which was protected by password and > > therefore it was waiting for password input and no other service (sshd > > was crucial) was not brought up until someone pressed enter. > > how about supplying --askpass /dev/null in default args ? or add some > --no-interactive option to openvpn code. i wonder, is it possible to check that the status is "initial bootup seqence". check for /dev/fd/0, or check for runlevel, or sth?
> I think startup scripts should never wait for user input, and that > would co it. i would agree, but how then you start openvpn if you intentionally want to have passphrase on the keyfile? (same goes for apache,...) -- glen _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en