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openvpn package

  1. Bug #1834514
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1834514

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

Hi,
this was adressed by upstream in [1]
and by adopted by Debian/Ubuntu in version 2.4.4-1
      * Further changes to debian/openvpn@.service copied from upstream
        - Enable Restart=on-failure
        - Use KillMode=process
which in releases means Bionic and later is already fixed in regard to your request to consider restarting it automatically.

For Xenial IMHO the SRU [2] policy forbids this change as it could change behavior in an unexpected way without the users noticing. Fortunately users - like you - which conciously want this change to be active on xenial can just add the lines via `systemctl edit <service>`

  RestartSec=5s
  Restart=on-failure

[1]: https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/a4686e99b047081f0ef6f7945450183088464aa5
[2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates