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Martin Hope
Christian David
Asked: 2016-03-18 02:01:10 +0800 CST
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openvpn starts fine from the command line using the exact ExecStart= call from the systemd unit file:

/usr/sbin/openvpn --daemon ovpn-server --status /run/openvpn/server.status 10 --cd /etc/openvpn --script-security 2 --config /etc/openvpn/server.conf /run/openvpn/server.pid

ps ax confirms that the process is there:

1634 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/openvpn --daemon ovpn-server --status /run/openvpn/server.status 10 --cd /etc/openvpn --script-security 2 --config /etc/openvpn/server.conf --writepid /run/openvpn/

But systemctl start openvpn@server is not successful:

● [email protected] - OpenVPN connection to server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2016-03-17 09:54:52 UTC; 4s ago
     Docs: man:openvpn(8)
           https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Openvpn23ManPage
           https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/HOWTO
  Process: 1679 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn --daemon ovpn-server --status /run/openvpn/server.status 10 --cd /etc/openvpn --script-security 2 --config /etc/openvpn/server.conf --writepid /run/openvpn/s
 Main PID: 819 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Mar 17 09:54:52 vpn ovpn-server[1679]:   push_ifconfig_ipv6_remote = ::
Mar 17 09:54:52 vpn ovpn-server[1679]:   enable_c2c = DISABLED
Mar 17 09:54:52 vpn ovpn-server[1679]:   duplicate_cn = DISABLED
Mar 17 09:54:52 vpn ovpn-server[1679]:   cf_max = 0
Mar 17 09:54:52 vpn ovpn-server[1679]:   cf_per = 0
Mar 17 09:54:52 vpn ovpn-server[1679]:   max_clients = 1024
Mar 17 09:54:52 vpn systemd[1]: [email protected]: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Mar 17 09:54:52 vpn systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenVPN connection to server.
Mar 17 09:54:52 vpn systemd[1]: [email protected]: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 17 09:54:52 vpn systemd[1]: [email protected]: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I interpret journalctl | grep ovpn-server | tail -n 100 that it failed to fork:

Mar 17 09:57:44 vpn ovpn-server[1693]: OpenVPN 2.3.10 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH] [IPv6] built on Feb  2 2016
Mar 17 09:57:44 vpn ovpn-server[1693]: library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2g  1 Mar 2016, LZO 2.08
Mar 17 09:57:44 vpn ovpn-server[1693]: daemon() failed or unsupported: Resource temporarily unavailable (errno=11)
Mar 17 09:57:44 vpn ovpn-server[1693]: Exiting due to fatal error
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