[Mageia-dev] systemd and openvpn

[Manuel Hiebel]

Le 26/10/2012 23:36, Richard Couture a écrit :
> More fun with systemd
>
> When I try to start my openvpn client with
> systemctl restart openvpn.service
>
> I get
>
> [root at AbelLap system]# systemctl restart openvpn.service
> Failed to issue method call: Unit openvpn.service failed to load: 
> Invalid argument. See system logs and 'systemctl status 
> openvpn.service' for details.
>
> systemctl status openvpn.service
>
> gives me
>
> [root at AbelLap system]# systemctl status openvpn.service
> openvpn.service
>       Loaded: error (Reason: Invalid argument)
>       Active: inactive (dead)
>
>
> HOWEVER when I go to /etc/init.d and issue the command
> [root at AbelLap system]# cd /etc/init.d
> [root at AbelLap init.d]# ./openvpn restart
> Shutting down openvpn:                                          [  OK  ]
> Starting openvpn:                                               [  OK  ]
>
> everything works fine
> Am I being super twit or something?
>
> I am writing a tutorial on openVPN to present to the international 
> Festival of Free Software in Puerto Vallarta 
> http://www.fslvallarta.org  next week and thought to use MGA to 
> indirectly promote it's use.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
> Richard

Hello, I think you can found some help in the related bugs:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6291