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I want my openvpn daemon to be started in boot and restarted when it crashs, so I added the following in /etc/inittab

vpn:2345:respawn:/etc/init.d/openvpn restart

but it is restarting every 5 min due to I guess:

daemon.info init: Id "vpn" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

here are more debug messages:

Sep 25 14:57:35 Wirgrid daemon.info ntpd[1061]: Deleting interface #9 tun0, 10.8.0.6#123, interface stats: received=0, sent=0, dropped=0, active_time=228 secs
Sep 25 14:57:49 Wirgrid daemon.info init: Id "vpn" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Sep 25 14:59:04 Wirgrid daemon.info ntpd[1061]: Listen normally on 10 tun0 10.8.0.6:123
Sep 25 14:59:04 Wirgrid daemon.debug ntpd[1061]: new interface(s) found: waking up resolver
Sep 25 15:02:51 Wirgrid daemon.info ntpd[1061]: Deleting interface #10 tun0, 10.8.0.6#123, interface stats: received=0, sent=0, dropped=0, active_time=227 secs
Sep 25 15:03:05 Wirgrid daemon.info init: Id "vpn" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Sep 25 15:04:19 Wirgrid daemon.info ntpd[1061]: Listen normally on 11 tun0 10.8.0.6:123
Sep 25 15:04:19 Wirgrid daemon.debug ntpd[1061]: new interface(s) found: waking up resolver

Here is the script /etc/init.d/openvpn:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# Original version by Robert Leslie
# <rob@mars.org>, edited by iwj and cs
# Modified for openvpn by Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@agi.as>
# Modified for restarting / starting / stopping single tunnels by Richard Mueller <mueller@teamix.net>

test $DEBIAN_SCRIPT_DEBUG && set -v -x

DAEMON=/usr/sbin/openvpn
CONFIG_DIR=/etc/openvpn
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
test -d $CONFIG_DIR || exit 0

start_vpn () 
 $DAEMON --daemon --writepid /var/run/openvpn.$NAME.pid 
 --config $CONFIG_DIR/$NAME.conf --cd $CONFIG_DIR 
stop_vpn () 

case "$1" in
start)
 printf "Starting openvpn:"

 if test -z $2 ; then
 for CONFIG in `cd $CONFIG_DIR; ls *.conf 2> /dev/null`; do
 NAME=$CONFIG%%.conf
 start_vpn
 done
 else
 if test -e $CONFIG_DIR/$2.conf ; then
 NAME=$2
 start_vpn
 else
 printf " No such VPN: $2"
 fi
 fi
 echo "."

 ;;
stop)
 printf "Stopping openvpn:"

 if test -z $2 ; then
 for PIDFILE in `ls /var/run/openvpn.*.pid 2> /dev/null`; do
 NAME=`echo $PIDFILE | cut -c18-`
 NAME=$NAME%%.pid
 stop_vpn
 printf " $NAME"
 done
 else
 if test -e /var/run/openvpn.$2.pid ; then
 PIDFILE=`ls /var/run/openvpn.$2.pid 2> /dev/null`
 NAME=`echo $PIDFILE | cut -c18-`
 NAME=$NAME%%.pid
 stop_vpn
 printf " $NAME"
 else
 printf " No such VPN: $2"
 fi
 fi
 echo "."
 ;;
# We only 'reload' for running VPNs. New ones will only start with 'start' or 'restart'.
reload|force-reload)
 printf "Reloading openvpn:"
 for PIDFILE in `ls /var/run/openvpn.*.pid 2> /dev/null`; do
 NAME=`echo $PIDFILE | cut -c18-`
 NAME=$NAME%%.pid
# If openvpn if running under a different user than root we'll need to restart
 if egrep '^( |t)*user' $CONFIG_DIR/$NAME.conf > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
 stop_vpn
 sleep 1
 start_vpn
 printf "(restarted)"
 else
 kill -HUP `cat $PIDFILE` || true
# start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --quiet --oknodo 
# --exec $DAEMON --pidfile $PIDFILE
 printf " $NAME"
 fi
 done
 echo "."
 ;;

restart)
 $0 stop $2
 sleep 1
 $0 start $2
 ;;
*)
 echo "Usage: $0 restart" >&2
 exit 1
 ;;
esac

exit 0

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Any idea why the init system keeps restarting it? thanks!