OpenVPN Service Won't Start on FreeNAS

tjkerm80

I am relatively new to both FreeNAS/FreeBSD and OpenVPN. I think I have everything configured correctly however when I try to start openvpn via "service openvpn start" I get the following...

"Starting openvpn.
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/openvpn: WARNING: failed to start openvpn"

Here is my conf file...

"192.168.0.4
port 1194
proto udp
dev tun
ca /openvpn/kays/ca.crt
cert /openvpn/keys/homevpn.crt
key /openvpn/keys/homevpn.key
dh /openvpn/keys/dh2048.pem
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
ifconfig-pool-persist /openvpn/ipp.txt
push "route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0"
keepalive 10 120
tls-auth openvpn/keys/ta.key 0
comp-lzo
persist-key
persist-tun
verb 0"

Hoping someone can help!

maikcat

use the log directive to allow openvpn to create a seperate log file,
then increase verb to 3 because 0 will not log anything...

Michael.

Traffic

maikcat wroteincrease verb to 3 because 0 will not log anything

--verb 0 -- No output except fatal errors.

tjkerm80 wrote"Starting openvpn.
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/openvpn: WARNING: failed to start openvpn"

Try this:

cd /etc/openvpn
openvpn --config server.conf

adjust the directory and config file name to suit your configuration.