How do you tell OpenVPN to run on startup?

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I've done these exact same steps on two Ubuntu computers and it works just fine. I copied the exact same foo.conf file (along with a corresponding auth.txt file) into /etc/openvpn/ and it works if I manually enter service openvpn start. But I can't get it to work on startup. I don't remember having a problem before. It just worked.



/var/log/openvpn is empty. /etc/default/openvpn matches the working computer (AUTOSTART="all" is commented so it should use all by default).



It's not starting the VPN after a reboot though.






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    I've done these exact same steps on two Ubuntu computers and it works just fine. I copied the exact same foo.conf file (along with a corresponding auth.txt file) into /etc/openvpn/ and it works if I manually enter service openvpn start. But I can't get it to work on startup. I don't remember having a problem before. It just worked.



    /var/log/openvpn is empty. /etc/default/openvpn matches the working computer (AUTOSTART="all" is commented so it should use all by default).



    It's not starting the VPN after a reboot though.






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      I've done these exact same steps on two Ubuntu computers and it works just fine. I copied the exact same foo.conf file (along with a corresponding auth.txt file) into /etc/openvpn/ and it works if I manually enter service openvpn start. But I can't get it to work on startup. I don't remember having a problem before. It just worked.



      /var/log/openvpn is empty. /etc/default/openvpn matches the working computer (AUTOSTART="all" is commented so it should use all by default).



      It's not starting the VPN after a reboot though.






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      I've done these exact same steps on two Ubuntu computers and it works just fine. I copied the exact same foo.conf file (along with a corresponding auth.txt file) into /etc/openvpn/ and it works if I manually enter service openvpn start. But I can't get it to work on startup. I don't remember having a problem before. It just worked.



      /var/log/openvpn is empty. /etc/default/openvpn matches the working computer (AUTOSTART="all" is commented so it should use all by default).



      It's not starting the VPN after a reboot though.






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          Replace <server> with the name of your configuration file.



          sudo systemctl enable <server>.service
          sudo systemctl start <server>.service


          So for /etc/openvpn/foo.conf it would be 



          sudo systemctl enable foo.service
          sudo systemctl start foo.service





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          • This looks wrong to me... It will only work if there is a foo.service, created by you (which is what the answer at askfedora suggests) or by a generator of some kind... Do you already have a openvpn.service or perhaps openvpn@.service on your system? Please post which distribution version you're using (Debian Stretch?) and confirm which version of OpenVPN package you have around... If you can find the systemd services for OpenVPN their contents are also helpful here.
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          Replace <server> with the name of your configuration file.



          sudo systemctl enable <server>.service
          sudo systemctl start <server>.service


          So for /etc/openvpn/foo.conf it would be 



          sudo systemctl enable foo.service
          sudo systemctl start foo.service





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          • This looks wrong to me... It will only work if there is a foo.service, created by you (which is what the answer at askfedora suggests) or by a generator of some kind... Do you already have a openvpn.service or perhaps openvpn@.service on your system? Please post which distribution version you're using (Debian Stretch?) and confirm which version of OpenVPN package you have around... If you can find the systemd services for OpenVPN their contents are also helpful here.
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          Replace <server> with the name of your configuration file.



          sudo systemctl enable <server>.service
          sudo systemctl start <server>.service


          So for /etc/openvpn/foo.conf it would be 



          sudo systemctl enable foo.service
          sudo systemctl start foo.service





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          • This looks wrong to me... It will only work if there is a foo.service, created by you (which is what the answer at askfedora suggests) or by a generator of some kind... Do you already have a openvpn.service or perhaps openvpn@.service on your system? Please post which distribution version you're using (Debian Stretch?) and confirm which version of OpenVPN package you have around... If you can find the systemd services for OpenVPN their contents are also helpful here.
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          Replace <server> with the name of your configuration file.



          sudo systemctl enable <server>.service
          sudo systemctl start <server>.service


          So for /etc/openvpn/foo.conf it would be 



          sudo systemctl enable foo.service
          sudo systemctl start foo.service





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          Found an answer.



          Replace <server> with the name of your configuration file.



          sudo systemctl enable <server>.service
          sudo systemctl start <server>.service


          So for /etc/openvpn/foo.conf it would be 



          sudo systemctl enable foo.service
          sudo systemctl start foo.service






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          • This looks wrong to me... It will only work if there is a foo.service, created by you (which is what the answer at askfedora suggests) or by a generator of some kind... Do you already have a openvpn.service or perhaps openvpn@.service on your system? Please post which distribution version you're using (Debian Stretch?) and confirm which version of OpenVPN package you have around... If you can find the systemd services for OpenVPN their contents are also helpful here.
            – Filipe Brandenburger
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          • This looks wrong to me... It will only work if there is a foo.service, created by you (which is what the answer at askfedora suggests) or by a generator of some kind... Do you already have a openvpn.service or perhaps openvpn@.service on your system? Please post which distribution version you're using (Debian Stretch?) and confirm which version of OpenVPN package you have around... If you can find the systemd services for OpenVPN their contents are also helpful here.
            – Filipe Brandenburger
            27 mins ago















          This looks wrong to me... It will only work if there is a foo.service, created by you (which is what the answer at askfedora suggests) or by a generator of some kind... Do you already have a openvpn.service or perhaps openvpn@.service on your system? Please post which distribution version you're using (Debian Stretch?) and confirm which version of OpenVPN package you have around... If you can find the systemd services for OpenVPN their contents are also helpful here.
          – Filipe Brandenburger
          27 mins ago




          This looks wrong to me... It will only work if there is a foo.service, created by you (which is what the answer at askfedora suggests) or by a generator of some kind... Do you already have a openvpn.service or perhaps openvpn@.service on your system? Please post which distribution version you're using (Debian Stretch?) and confirm which version of OpenVPN package you have around... If you can find the systemd services for OpenVPN their contents are also helpful here.
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