On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote: > How do I start and stop "systemd" services, I would imagine systemd works > the same across all distros.
You run systemd start <service> - that is the same on all distros (well, if they're not writing fancy wrappers around it or whatever - Gentoo follows upstream). > My openvpn server is running on Gentoo but client openvpn I setup on Fedora > 21 (as the computer is old and slow). > > Normally I would create configuration files in /etc/openvpn/ > and run: > /etc/init.d/ln -s openvpn.client1 openvpn > /etc/init.d/openvpn.client1 start > > But on Fedora when I do systemctl enable openvpn@eeepc.service I ended up having to add the following to my unit: ExecStartPre=-/bin/mkdir -p /dev/net ExecStartPre=-/bin/mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200 I forget if that is reported somewhere, fixed upstream, etc. It has been a while since I studied tap/tun so it might also not be necessary in some configurations. -- Rich
