[plug] Centos openvpn question if I could

[Chris Griffin]

Do you have something like a very brief systemd for idiots that I
could kick start with?
It would still mean I would have to use an alternative for gnome though.

Chris

On 2/1/12, Ian Kent <raven at themaw.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 13:34 +0800, Chris Griffin wrote:
>> Sadly so. The main reason I am going away from Fedora though is what
>> they have down with Gnome, especially, and to a degree KDE. systemd
>> was because I could not work out how/where to set up and start
>> openvpn. So much seems to be missing out of /etc/init.d and I could
>> not work out where or how to do it now. And I had little interest in
>> working it out given  I hated the new gnome interface so much.
>
> Yeah, I need to change that on my own system, to be sure.
>
> But an init script will still work fine in a systemd environment so
> that's not a problem and I can help you find your way around systemd, to
> the extent I have had to find out about it myself, at least.
>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ian Kent <raven at themaw.net> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 11:50 +0800, Chris Griffin wrote:
>> >> Systemd is the other reason i am bumping Fedora.
>> >
>> > Systemd will still catch up with you in CentOS-7 I expect.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> On 31/01/2012 9:20 AM, "Andrew Cooks" <acooks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>         On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Ian Kent <raven at themaw.net>
>> >>         wrote:
>> >>
>> >>                 > It looks good but I have installed openvpn
>> >>                 (openswan) and rpm tells me
>> >>                 > it is there but the /etc/openvpn directory is not
>> >>                 there nor is the
>> >>                 > /etc/init.d/openvpn startup script.
>> >>
>> >>                 Obviously you won't find that in an openswan install
>> >>                 since it would
>> >>                 conflict with the init script in an openvpn install.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>         OpenVPN and Openswan will not necessarily clash, unless the
>> >>         init scripts make incorrect assumptions about TUN/TAP
>> >>         interfaces. Each service should have its own init script.
>> >>         (systemd is yet another thing to trip you in Fedora 15).
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>         As a side note, Openswan is an ipsec implementation which
>> >>         works on the TCP/UDP layer of the network, whereas OpenVPN
>> >>         works like any "normal application" on top of TCP/UDP. Ipsec
>> >>         can be really hard to use in the NATed networks and dynamic
>> >>         IPs that are common today, whereas an ssl-over-udp tunnel like
>> >>         OpenVPN is relatively simple, so don't switch if you can help
>> >>         it.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>         A.
>> >>
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