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openvpn service is dead

Hello everybody! I have the following problem, i just installed Fedora 12, clean without anything change in it. I opened services dialog, and the openvpn service have status:dead, however it shows that it is enabled.
when i try to run it as:
/sbin/service openvpn start. It write OK. However if check it:
/sbin/service openvpn status
it write that service not running. What is a point of a problem? I have opened openvpn in FireWall,however without success, may be some additionsl services for openvpn are not running?

Quote:

Originally Posted by vofka (Post 3933779)

Have you checked that anything is being written to /var/log/messages?
should look like this when starting

Code:

[root@xxx ~]# service openvpn start

Starting openvpn:  



                                        [  OK  ]

Does it??

Possible library modules missing??
Check

Code:

ldd `which openvpn`

Code:



ldconfig -vv `which openvpn` | less

let us know your results...

Quote:

Originally Posted by centosboy (Post 3933896)

Have you checked that anything is being written to /var/log/messages?
should look like this when starting

Code:

[root@xxx ~]# service openvpn start

Starting openvpn:  



                                        [  OK  ]

Does it??

Possible library modules missing??
Check

Code:

ldd `which openvpn`

Code:



ldconfig -vv `which openvpn` | less

let us know your results...

Yes service start success:

Code:

[root@localhost /]# service openvpn start

Starting openvpn:                                          [  OK  ]

However if check it as:

Code:

[root@localhost /]# service openvpn status

openvpn: service not started

:(
And if you start:

Code:

[root@localhost /]# system-config-services

You will see the status of service openvpn:
this service is enabled, this service is dead!
Now run ldd command:

Code:

 [root@localhost /]# ldd /usr/sbin/openvpn

        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x002f7000)

        libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0x00963000)

        libpkcs11-helper.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpkcs11-helper.so.1 (0x0082c000)

        libssl.so.10 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.10 (0x07f96000)

        libcrypto.so.10 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.10 (0x07c56000)

        liblzo2.so.2 => /usr/lib/liblzo2.so.2 (0x00878000)

        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00809000)

        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00810000)

        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00692000)

        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00670000)

        libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x00863000)

        libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x0058c000)

        libkrb5.so.3 => /lib/libkrb5.so.3 (0x07edb000)

        libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x0055a000)

        libk5crypto.so.3 => /lib/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x0055f000)

        libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x009c9000)

        libkrb5support.so.0 => /lib/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x005cb000)

        libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x005c6000)

[root@localhost /]#

It seems that it is OK with openvpn libraries!
And if run /usr/sbin/openvpn it works, nothing about missing libraries, however the serfvice is dead :(

The problem is resolved. The sense of the problem was, that as described in /etc/init.d/openvpn (/sbin/service start this script),
the work=/etc/openvpn is the work folder, so shell script search all config files in this folder, if any of them exists, it run them as:

Code:

$openvpn --daemon --writepid $piddir/$bn.pid --config $c --cd $work $script_security

(Line 174) and write pid file to directory,
/var/run/openvpn. if there is no problems it creates lock file in:/var/lock/subsys/openvpn. And if lock file not exists(it means that were some problems to start config files),it returns "openvpn: service not started", and the service marks as dead in the list of services.
So lets assume the problem as resolved.