Run script on startup help

Bella

Hi I am runnig Lubuntu
http://lubuntu.net/
Basically

Right now I have to type

openvpn --config /home/user/Desktop/server.ovpn

to connect to OpenVPN.

I want to make it automatic on startup and if the connection drops I want it to keep trying to reconnect.

Does anyone here know how to make a bash script to do all that.

MarkTurner

To start on startup add to /etc/rc.local

To make it reconnect, you need to have a wrapper to detect either the loss of connection or if the software remains in the foreground during operation and exits upon failure then something like supervisord will work great.

netomx

@MarkTurner said:
To start on startup add to /etc/rc.local

To make it reconnect, you need to have a wrapper to detect either the loss of connection or if the software remains in the foreground during operation and exits upon failure then something like supervisord will work great.

Just don't forget to add the & at the end!

And for the reconnect, just add it to the OpenVPN config

Silvenga

Why not use the default start up script (put the script into your /etc/openvpn/ directory, and change the extension to .conf)?

If else you can add this to your crontab: crontab -e. With the line: @reboot /usr/sbin/openvpn --config /home/user/Desktop/server.ovpn. This is preferred to using /etc/rc.local now.

The auto restarting would require using the default script (already exists), an Upstart script (a few lines of config), or by adding the option to your OpenVPN config (preferred).