how can i start openvpn-service manually via ssh or terminal? need that for a script.
Run as user: /config/sessions/openvpn0
thx, will try!
thanks, overall it seems to work. thanks.
any command to release the vpn connection?
ok, besides my last question, which is a nice-to-have feature for me, i have the issue, that the vpn connection is established and immediately removed again.
any idea, why?
when calling /config/sessions/openvpn0 manually on an igel client connected to the internet, we get the following output (have to type it manually, just got a screenshot):
`setup_cmd: Execute [/config/bin/openvpn-session-handler] as root`
`Verbindung >openvnp0< wurde erfolgreich deaktiviert (aktiver D-Bus NetworkManager/activeConnecton/41`
`openvpn0 d3acxxxxxxxxxxxxxx vpn`
`openvpn0 d3acxxxxxxxxxxxxxx vpn`
`openvpn0 d3acxxxxxxxxxxxxxx vpn`
`user@igelclient:~$`
connection is shortly established and immediately removed.
Session is apperently started twice. If one already running and then started a second time , the first one get’s stopped and then the second comes up. Only one VPN at a time.
Do you have eth0 and wlan0 at the same time?
no, we only have eth0 enabled.
i don’t think there is another session, because if you boot up the client vpn is not started automatically (you have to do it manually, we have a link on the desktop to start vpn for this).
I think to be able to debug this you have to post your script (at least in pseudo code) and/or share the journal log (maybe in redacted form for privacy).
this is the script:
if ifconfig eth0 | grep -i inet | sed -e ‘s/.inet addr://’ -e ‘s/Bcast.//’ | grep -vq “^10.100.” ; then ‘/config/sessions/openvpn0’ ; fi
And you put it where?
i tried it in all 4 network-command (always in one place at a time).
Well, started from network-custom-cmds you run the sessions script as root. This why my first reply was _start as user_. Technically, sessions (even though a vpn is not a session pre-se) are supposed to be run by the user (su user -c “_your-cmd_” does the trick). Not sure if this is the reason here, though. But it has the potential to ruin the course of action.
checked already with “su user -c”, but not at all possible locations.
where do you think i should place the script? i think as final network command would be ok?
It’s the session-starter _/config/sessions/openvpn0,_ which has to be run as user. And yes, the final network cmd seems about right. If I wasn’t in home office I’d tested that myself already, but now it’s not so easy to get a vpn playgroud.
no problem, i will test that (let that test 😉 ).
checked again, not working (before we used:
if ifconfig eth0 | grep -i inet | sed -e ‘s/.inet addr://’ -e ‘s/Bcast.//’ | grep -vq “10.2.” ; then su -s /bin/sh user -c ‘/config/sessions/openvpn0’ ; fi
=> /bin/sh was explicitely called. but uit behaves identically.
please ignore the network-differences in my statements – we have the correct IPs in the configuration, due to obfiscating i am using other ip-ranges here.
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