Problem setting up a sysvinit service to start on boot [Solved]

[horseyman66]

Hi!

So i want my service to start on boot. I have created the following file `/etc/init.d/myvpn`: https://gist.github.com/banister/060d03 ... 4df9d1f724

and made it executable

I can start/stop the service correctly using:

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sudo service myvpn start

I then run:

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sudo sysv-rc-conf myvpn on

to add the symlink to

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/etc/rc5.d/

and i notice they are added successfully added. (

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/etc/rc5.d/S80myvpn -> ../init.d/myvpn

)

at this point, it should start at boot right?

however it doesn't.

Can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong?

Note again, the service DOES start fine when i manually go:

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sudo service myvpn start

- at this point i'm very confused

THanks!

[dolphin_oracle]

I took a look at your init script.

do a

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 sudo update-rc.d myvpn defaults

to register all the symlinks needed.

you may also want to add "networking" to the "required-start" line of your script. Its very possible your script is starting up before the network is up, and so fails.

[horseyman66]

Thanks, i tried that

but i get the following message:

insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (1) of script `mypn' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (2 3 4 5) of script `myvpn' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).

I ended up copying the header from /etc/init.d/openvpn just to be sure i didn't have a syntax error, but i still get the same issues

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: myvpn
# Required-Start: $network $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $network $remote_fs $syslog
# Should-Start: network-manager
# Should-Stop: network-manager
# X-Start-Before: $x-display-manager gdm kdm xdm wdm ldm sdm nodm
# X-Interactive: true
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: MY VPN service
# Description: This script will start MYVPN tunnels as specified
### END INIT INFO


also, what's the difference between between `update-rc.d` and `sysv-rc-conf` ? i already ran the latter...

[fehlix]

insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (1) of script `mypn' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (2 3 4 5) of script `myvpn' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).

As a warning, it's probably that update-rc.d has a different interpretation of "LSB" standard,
just ignore.

also, what's the difference between between `update-rc.d` and `sysv-rc-conf` ? i already ran the latter...

As D_O mentioned, use "update-rc.d myvpn defaults" to set all service-init links in one go.
sysv-rc-conf is rather good for tweaking individual start/stop links.
I would probably make a clean start and remove all

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update-rc.d myvpn remove

check to see nothing left:

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ls -l /etc/rc?.d/*myvpn

and recreate again.

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update-rc.d myvpn defaults

Also better show your full initscript, which you have now, probably add some logging to see any error in one place when not started.
BTW, what is "myvpn", would you mind to share what you got.
Thanks

[horseyman66]

Thanks guys, after copying across the header from openvpn and running the `update-rc.d` script as you guys stated, it appears to work.

The VPN is PIA, they don't appear to support sysvinit (only systemd) so i had to write my own service

[fehlix]

The VPN is PIA, they don't appear to support sysvinit (only systemd) so i had to write my own service

It appears that I have prepared a PIAVPN (Private Internet Access) init-script also,
if that works we might setup a installer within MX Package Installer for piavpn.
Would you mind trying the attached piavpn-init script.
Here what I have done to get latest piaVPN working in MX Linux booting in sysVinit:
Get latest version ( currently Version 1.1.1 ) from

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https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/download

Open terminal and run the installer as normal user:

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./pia-linux-1.1.1-02545.run 

After installer finished do add the sysVinit init-script by extracting the attached tar-file:

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sudo tar -C / -xvf ./piavpn-init.tar

Now enable init-service:

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sudo update-rc.d piavpn defaults

and start the service:

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sudo service piavpn start

After running this I got the piavpn login popup :

piavpn-sysvinit-login.png

Within the menu look for the PIA VPN connect starter
Attached tar-file, with this content:

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$ tar -tf ./piavpn-init.tar 
./
./etc/
./etc/init.d/
./etc/init.d/piavpn

Thanks

[horseyman66]

lol almost the same as mine, we both got it from https://gist.github.com/RichardBronosky ... 057200bd02

[fehlix]

lol almost the same as mine ...

I used probably nordvpn's init script as a template. But anyway, would you mind checking the one I attached and the procedure is working. As it would help to make sure the piavpn installer, which we are going to provided through MX Package Installer will work ok.
Thanks

[horseyman66]

I messaged you on slack

[fehlix]

I messaged you on slack

Thanks, but cannot find the message :lipsrsealed: