[sclug] Mandrake, sys-v init and openvpn

[James Wyper]

Hello everyone

I've recently installed openvpn 2.0 by -as the docs suggest - making an
rpm from the source and installing it.  Everything seems to have gone
smoothly apart from getting it to start automatically on boot; the init
scripts seem to be ok but on booting I get

starting openvpn       [FAILED]

nothing useful is written to the syslog as far as I can see.

however, once I have logged in I can su to root and enter

service openvpn start

which should run the same script -  and it works?!

I'm running Mandrake 10.1 which has AFAIK standard sys-V style
initialisation procedures.

What's the least disruptive way of sticking a trace onto the
initialisation scripts or otherwise debugging them so I can find out
what's wrong?

Thanks,
James.


	
	
		
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