Hi all, I'm running into a problem with systemd and my openvpn instances.
To start a vpn, I run 'systemctl start openvpn-client@foo_host2' or similar. That has to be an underscore, because as far as I can see, using a hyphen/dash will break the instance mechanism. Of course, the actual hostname has to have a hyphen, because you can't have an underscore in the DNS. This means I will inevitably end up typing 'systemctl start openvpn-client@foo-host2' by mistake. When that happens, it appears that systemd will try to start it, and fail because foo-host2.conf doesn't exist - and try for ever. Showing the status of foo_host2 works fine, of course, so I don't notice until I look at the logs. Is this an inherent part of how systemd works, or is there a way to make it return an error message, rather than silently trying the impossible? Thanks, Richard
