OpenVPN / Jessie / Systemd

[RobertR]

Hi, I've OpenVPN installed on my Raspberry with Jessie.

The serverfile is located /etc/openvpn/server.conf

When I boot the systemd fails to start openvpn@server.service

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pi@RaspberryPi-Desiree ~ $ systemctl status openvpn@server
● openvpn@server.service - OpenVPN connection to server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/openvpn@.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since do 2015-07-16 23:18:13 CEST; 1min 36s ago
  Process: 608 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn --daemon ovpn-%i --status /run/openvpn/%i.status 10 --cd /etc/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/%i.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

However when I try

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systemctl start openvpn@server

It starts without any problems

Does anyone know how I can fix that it will start at boot?

[RobertR]

After digging google I found a solution

I edited /lib/systems/system/openvpn@.service and added

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After=multi-user.target

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[Unit]
Description=OpenVPN connection to %i
PartOf=openvpn.service
ReloadPropagatedFrom=openvpn.service
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn --daemon ovpn-%i --status /run/openvpn/%i.status 10 --cd /etc/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/%i.conf
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
WorkingDirectory=/etc/openvpn

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[kadway]

Thank you!
I've been searching for a solution for the same problem for quite some time already. Is this a problem in Jessie only? In my older raspberry still running wheezy this did not happen :S
Anyway, thanks this did the trick!

[alexanderfortin]

I've got another issue apparently related to Jessie / systemd regarding OpenVPN: the only way for me to make it run is to manually execute
# openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/client.conf --daemon

In this way I can see the expected logs in /var/log/syslog and openvpn is properly started and connected to the peer. Anyway, when I try to do the same thing via systemctl, it says it's started ok but no actual process is running:

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root@:~# systemctl status openvpn
● openvpn.service - OpenVPN service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/openvpn.service; enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2015-12-15 21:10:03 UTC; 29s ago
  Process: 22659 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 22659 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

root@:~# systemctl start openvpn
root@:~# systemctl status openvpn
● openvpn.service - OpenVPN service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/openvpn.service; enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2015-12-15 21:11:06 UTC; 4s ago
  Process: 23356 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 23356 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Dec 15 21:11:06 .devsum.it systemd[1]: Started OpenVPN service.
root@:~# pgrep openvpn
root@:~#

Also, syslog does log only those 2 entries:
Dec 15 21:11:06 systemd[1]: Starting OpenVPN service...
Dec 15 21:11:06 systemd[1]: Started OpenVPN service.

Ideas?