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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch @gjacobse
      last edited by

      @gjacobse said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

      @JaredBusch said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

      First of all, restart vpn is for IPSEC services. Not OpenVPN services.

      Second, you could not have restarted the router with that command because it does not have that capability.

      Command used to restart the router

      shutdown -r now
      

      gods the things wrong here..

      1. You implied the restart vpn caused a reboot. 0_1490647145732_upload-d1f4cea8-5524-4958-aa6f-b629ad3306a8

      2. There is a reboot command for that. Use it. why are you applying base OS commands when there is an entire set of commands layered on top to handle all the normal duties. Perhaps doing things you do not know in addition.

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      • gjacobseG
        gjacobse @JaredBusch
        last edited by

        @JaredBusch said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

        @gjacobse said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

        @JaredBusch said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

        First of all, restart vpn is for IPSEC services. Not OpenVPN services.

        Second, you could not have restarted the router with that command because it does not have that capability.

        Command used to restart the router

        shutdown -r now
        

        gods the things wrong here..

        1. You implied the restart vpn caused a reboot. 0_1490647145732_upload-d1f4cea8-5524-4958-aa6f-b629ad3306a8

        2. There is a reboot command for that. Use it. why are you applying base OS commands when there is an entire set of commands layered on top to handle all the normal duties. Perhaps doing things you do not know in addition.

        Restart VPN and REBOOT are two wholly different things - I know that.

        The command to restart the SERVICE wasn't found in the time I had to find it for a 14:00 EDT REBOOT. I wanted to do a restart of the service rather than a reboot as to not take the site down.

        As the restart command wasn't found in the time I had, the shutdown -r now was used to reboot and thus restart the OpenVPN services.

        Upon the reboot completion, the service was restarted normally and users were again able to sign in.

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        • JaredBuschJ
          JaredBusch
          last edited by gjacobse

          0_1490647834741_upload-4837076d-4efd-4339-87f2-5e180ecf68b7
          @gjacobse you need to step the f*** back and read things a little more carefully. because your little marked up rant there is all kinds of wrong if you are trying to reply to anything I said.

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          • travisdh1T
            travisdh1 @gjacobse
            last edited by

            @gjacobse said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

            As the restart command wasn't found in the time I had, the shutdown -r now was used to reboot and thus restart the OpenVPN services.

            alt text

            So, the router actually rebooted instead of stopping? Because 'shutdown -r now' is a hard stop, not a reboot. I understand that you were most likely just trying to fix things, but that line especially doesn't make sense.

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            • gjacobseG
              gjacobse @travisdh1
              last edited by

              @travisdh1 said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

              @gjacobse said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

              As the restart command wasn't found in the time I had, the shutdown -r now was used to reboot and thus restart the OpenVPN services.

              alt text

              So, the router actually rebooted instead of stopping? Because 'shutdown -r now' is a hard stop, not a reboot. I understand that you were most likely just trying to fix things, but that line especially doesn't make sense.

              Restart linux
              The shutdown command can be used to restart a system with the r option instead of the h option. Usage is same as before. Just replace the h option with r option.
              
              # shutdown -r +5 "Server will restart in 5 minutes. Please save your work."
              
              Shutdown linux
              To shutdown a machine call the shutdown command like this
              
              # shutdown -h now
              The h option is for halt which means to stop. The second parameter is the time parameter. "now" means that shutdown the system right away.
              

              Didn't need to shutdown (halt) the router, I'm not there to restart it. So rather than use -h, the -r was used.

              As the service restart wasn't found in the time I had - the router was rebooted as a 'this is what I have now, and the service window is NOW'

              I never said that the router rebooted itself. The router was rebooted as the only other option to getting the OpenVPN service to restart......

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              • travisdh1T
                travisdh1 @gjacobse
                last edited by

                @gjacobse said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

                @travisdh1 said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

                @gjacobse said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

                As the restart command wasn't found in the time I had, the shutdown -r now was used to reboot and thus restart the OpenVPN services.

                alt text

                So, the router actually rebooted instead of stopping? Because 'shutdown -r now' is a hard stop, not a reboot. I understand that you were most likely just trying to fix things, but that line especially doesn't make sense.

                Restart linux
                The shutdown command can be used to restart a system with the r option instead of the h option. Usage is same as before. Just replace the h option with r option.
                
                # shutdown -r +5 "Server will restart in 5 minutes. Please save your work."
                
                Shutdown linux
                To shutdown a machine call the shutdown command like this
                
                # shutdown -h now
                The h option is for halt which means to stop. The second parameter is the time parameter. "now" means that shutdown the system right away.
                

                Didn't need to shutdown (halt) the router, I'm not there to restart it. So rather than use -h, the -r was used.

                As the service restart wasn't found in the time I had - the router was rebooted as a 'this is what I have now, and the service window is NOW'

                I never said that the router rebooted itself. The router was rebooted as the only other option to getting the OpenVPN service to restart......

                Ah, I use the shutdown command so infrequently that I'm forgetting what the option switches for it are. That's a lot of typing for

                reboot
                
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                • gjacobseG
                  gjacobse @travisdh1
                  last edited by gjacobse

                  @travisdh1 said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

                  @gjacobse said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

                  @travisdh1 said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

                  @gjacobse said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

                  As the restart command wasn't found in the time I had, the shutdown -r now was used to reboot and thus restart the OpenVPN services.

                  alt text

                  So, the router actually rebooted instead of stopping? Because 'shutdown -r now' is a hard stop, not a reboot. I understand that you were most likely just trying to fix things, but that line especially doesn't make sense.

                  Restart linux
                  The shutdown command can be used to restart a system with the r option instead of the h option. Usage is same as before. Just replace the h option with r option.
                  
                  # shutdown -r +5 "Server will restart in 5 minutes. Please save your work."
                  
                  Shutdown linux
                  To shutdown a machine call the shutdown command like this
                  
                  # shutdown -h now
                  The h option is for halt which means to stop. The second parameter is the time parameter. "now" means that shutdown the system right away.
                  

                  Didn't need to shutdown (halt) the router, I'm not there to restart it. So rather than use -h, the -r was used.

                  As the service restart wasn't found in the time I had - the router was rebooted as a 'this is what I have now, and the service window is NOW'

                  I never said that the router rebooted itself. The router was rebooted as the only other option to getting the OpenVPN service to restart......

                  Ah, I use the shutdown command so infrequently that I'm forgetting what the option switches for it are. That's a lot of typing for

                  reboot
                  

                  Ha - with the limited experience in CLI, I went with what I knew would work.. I used that command in Windows and Linux - so is second nature to type. I'll forgo using the GUI in Win10 and type that ,..... Is it 'right' - meh,.. maybe not. but it works.

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @gjacobse
                    last edited by JaredBusch

                    @gjacobse said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

                    maybe not. but it works.

                    How do you know? Have you looked into the reboot script to see what it actually does and contrast that with the shutdown -r now command?

                    It forces a hard restart of the system, but does it actually "work"?

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                    • C
                      Carnival Boy
                      last edited by

                      Wow, tough crowd on this thread.

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                      • BRRABillB
                        BRRABill @Carnival Boy
                        last edited by

                        @Carnival-Boy said in EdgeRouter - openVPN restart:

                        Wow, tough crowd on this thread.

                        You new to ML? 😉

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                        • H
                          helix
                          last edited by helix

                          This shit still doesn't work properly through the EdgeOS-provided /etc/init.d/openvpn script. If you do /etc/init.d/openvpn status or systemctl status openvpn you get a green-light active (exited) but this is deceiving because it's a one-shot service and not a proper systemd daemon. systemctl edit --full shows the following piece of crap "service":

                          [Unit]
                          Description=OpenVPN service
                          After=network.target
                          
                          [Service]
                          Type=oneshot
                          RemainAfterExit=yes
                          ExecStart=/bin/true
                          ExecReload=/bin/true
                          WorkingDirectory=/etc/openvpn
                          
                          [Install]
                          WantedBy=multi-user.target
                          

                          /bin/true? Are you fucking kidding me, Ubiquiti? I pay thousands of €s for your shit and you still manage to be so bad at Linuxing. At least don't pretend you have a service or properly document your shit, ubnt.

                          https://community.ui.com/questions/Restarting-OpenVPN/2e5c4e8b-ab61-49f1-a25b-e5aa23130d48 suggests that reset openvpn interface works but… it didn't. You can try it before you try the following.

                          What helped me was to change settings so the config got regenerated. For example you could set or delete the following option:

                          interfaces openvpn vtun0 openvpn-option "--cipher AES-256-CBC"
                          

                          then commit and see with sudo ss -lpn | grep :1194 that the thing's started. If OpenVPN is running or doesn't restart, you can killall openvpn a few times with forced Enter (hit the Enter key very hard, it's important) before you change the settings.

                          Just wanted to mention this to anyone finding this thread through "openvpn restart edgerouter doesn't work" in google or similar. I hope I sweared enough for my first fucking post in this damn nice forum 😛

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