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koesmi

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Registered: 2017-02-15

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] vpnc fails to start with systemd on boot

Hi,

To connect to vpn on boot I created a file

/etc/vpnc/ipsec-rz.conf

and ran

systemctl enable vpnc@ipsec-rz

as root, however after reboot

systemctl status vpnc@ipsec-rz

yields

Feb 15 11:12:20 lens systemd[1]: Starting VPNC connection to ipsec-rz...
Feb 15 11:12:20 lens vpnc[369]: /usr/bin/vpnc: unknown host `ipsec-rz.vpn.uni-freiburg.de'
Feb 15 11:12:20 lens systemd[1]: vpnc@ipsec-rz.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Feb 15 11:12:20 lens systemd[1]: Failed to start VPNC connection to ipsec-rz.
Feb 15 11:12:20 lens systemd[1]: vpnc@ipsec-rz.service: Unit entered failed state.
Feb 15 11:12:20 lens systemd[1]: vpnc@ipsec-rz.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

When I run

systemctl start vpnc@ipsec-rz

I succeed. I already tried setting

User=root

in

/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vpnc@ipsec-rz.service

as well as

Requires=network.target

or

WantedBy=network.target

without success. Thank you for any advice!

Last edited by koesmi (2017-02-18 23:13:32)

koesmi

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Registered: 2017-02-15

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] vpnc fails to start with systemd on boot

I was able to solve that myself as follows. First, I had dhcpcd running as service, which I changed to systemd-networkd. Then I followed this post to make vpnc@ipsec-rz wait until the network is online; that is in

/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vpnc@ipsec-rz.service

I changed the respective entries to

[Unit]
Wants=network-online.target
After=network.target network-online.target

and ran

systemctl enable systemd-networkd-wait-online

Since I used the default vpnc@.service coming with systemd before, I can imagine there are others with this issue, so I hope the post helps.