Re: [Openvpn-devel] Writing an OpenVPN-specific NSSM configuration frontend?

[Pasi K. <pa...@ik...>]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 07:00:56PM +0300, Samuli Seppänen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There is a question at the end, so scroll down if you're impatient :). 
> Anyways, some of you may know I've been looking into NSSM:
> 
> <http://nssm.cc>
> 
> The idea is to use NSSM to replace the OpenVPN Service Wrapper 
> ("openvpnserv.exe") which is buggy, unmaintained, causes all sorts of 
> issues and seems disintegrate more and more with every new Windows release.
> 
> NSSM on is actively maintained[1] general purpose service manager which 
> can launch an arbitrary program and restart it if it crashes. NSSM 
> registers itself as a Windows service and manages a set of services, 
> which can be arbitrary programs. In our case nssm.exe would run a 
> command such as this:
> 
> ..\bin\openvpn.exe --config default.ovpn
> 
> The working directory would be set to C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config. 
>

If changing the OpenVPN Windows stuff, please also support having config files under user's profile directory,
not only in the system-wide config-directory.

-- Pasi