Restarting openvpn client from shell

[kobari]

Hi,

Every once in a while, the VPN client on my Asus router is killing my internet connection (cannot connect anywhere) and restarting it via the web interface restores the internet connection.

I want to write a cron script that checks internet connection every n minutes and restarts it, and as far as I can see killing /etc/openvpn/vpnclient1 process with ps & awk and restarting with:

/etc/openvpn/vpnclient1 --cd /etc/openvpn/client1 --config config.ovpn

works.

Is this safe to do? Is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks

 

[RMerlin]

Hi,

Every once in a while, the VPN client on my Asus router is killing my internet connection (cannot connect anywhere) and restarting it via the web interface restores the internet connection.

I want to write a cron script that checks internet connection every n minutes and restarts it, and as far as I can see killing /etc/openvpn/vpnclient1 process with ps & awk and restarting with:

/etc/openvpn/vpnclient1 --cd /etc/openvpn/client1 --config config.ovpn

works.

Is this safe to do? Is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks

You could go through the service manager:

service restart_vpnclient1

That way the router will properly keep track of the state of the VPN client.

 

[kobari]

Thanks a ton, works beautifully!