Start openvpn with my own config at startup

Start openvpn with my own config at startup

[Matthew Karas]

I have an ovpn file I'd like my system to start up with.  I was able
to install the openvpn file into /etc/openvpn using a bbappends file -
but the system doesn't start openvpn like the openvpn docs describes.

How do I set up openvpn to launch with my config file at start up?

Thanks

Re: Start openvpn with my own config at startup

[Alex J Lennon]

Hi Matthew,

On 27/05/2015 20:07, Matthew Karas wrote:
> I have an ovpn file I'd like my system to start up with.  I was able
> to install the openvpn file into /etc/openvpn using a bbappends file -
> but the system doesn't start openvpn like the openvpn docs describes.
>
> How do I set up openvpn to launch with my config file at start up?
>
> Thanks

We're using OpenVPN here too. I put a .bbappend together along these
lines which does the job for me. I think you may be needing the
update-rc.d incantations which are documented here

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref-classes-update-rc.d

e.g.

FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}-${PV}:"

SRC_URI += "file://openvpn.conf \
           "

do_install_append() {
  install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/openvpn
  install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/openvpn.conf
${D}${sysconfdir}/openvpn/openvpn.conf
}

inherit update-rc.d

INITSCRIPT_NAME = "${PN}"
INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 90 5 2 . stop 30 0 1 6 ."

...

fwiw we've found that across multiple channels (wired, wireless 802.11,
cellular) we need something more than this and so have started looking
at connman + ofono to provide connection management. NB connman supports
OpenVPN.

Hope that helps,

Alex

Re: Start openvpn with my own config at startup

[Christian Ege]

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> Am 27.05.2015 um 20:07 schrieb Matthew Karas <mkarascybi@gmail.com>:
> 
> I have an ovpn file I'd like my system to start up with.  I was able
> to install the openvpn file into /etc/openvpn using a bbappends file -
> but the system doesn't start openvpn like the openvpn docs describes.
> 
> How do I set up openvpn to launch with my config file at start up?
It depends if you build for a systemd or init.d based set-up. If you are building for init.d which is the default setting you can check the init script how openvpn is started:

http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-networking/recipes-support/openvpn/openvpn/openvpn <http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-networking/recipes-support/openvpn/openvpn/openvpn>

Regards,
Christian
> 
> Thanks
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Re: Start openvpn with my own config at startup

[Chris Morgan]

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On Wednesday, May 27, 2015, Matthew Karas <mkarascybi@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an ovpn file I'd like my system to start up with.  I was able
> to install the openvpn file into /etc/openvpn using a bbappends file -
> but the system doesn't start openvpn like the openvpn docs describes.
>
> How do I set up openvpn to launch with my config file at start up?
>
>
Openvpn doesn't come with init or systemd support out of the box?

If you are using systemd there is a class that will take care of installing
and enabling a service file for you. You'd have to write the service file
yourself I think. There should be some examples of how other recipes are
using it if you search for systemd in the base poky recipes.

You can put your changes into the .bbappend and they should take effect
when you build and install the recipe.

Chris

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