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

[Samuli S. <sa...@op...>]

> 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
>
Hi,

Nssm.exe does not seem to care at all where the configuration files are 
located. It just launches processes and monitors them.

-- 
Samuli Seppänen
Community Manager
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc

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