SoftEther on Ubuntu 20.04 not auto starting

[xodc]

I am running Ubuntu 22.04 in a VMware Workstation VM (Host OS is Windows 11 Pro).

I find that I have to manually start the Softether VPN by running "/etc/init.d/vpnserver start".

I tried running "update-rc.d vpnserver defaults" to make it autostart after login to no avail.

Any ideas? Thanks!

[solo]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ubuntu+20.04+ ... +autostart

[xodc]

I tried this guide, which shows something similar: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... ter-reboot


However, the problem is when I go enable the service with

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sudo systemctl enable vpnserver.service

It gives me an error:

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update-rc.d: error: vpnserver Default-Start contains no runlevels, aborting

I tried all 3 variations:

"sudo nano /etc/init.d/vpnserver"

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#!/bin/sh
# chkconfig: 2345 99 01
# description: SoftEther VPN Server
sleep 10
DAEMON=/usr/local/vpnserver/vpnserver
LOCK=/var/lock/subsys/vpnserver
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
case "$1" in
start)
$DAEMON start
touch $LOCK
;;
stop)
$DAEMON stop
rm $LOCK
;;
restart)
$DAEMON stop
sleep 3
$DAEMON start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac
/etc/init.d/vpnserver start
exit 0

"sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/vpnserver.service"
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"nano /lib/systemd/system/vpnserver.service"

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[Unit]
Description=SoftEther VPN Server
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/local/vpnserver/vpnserver start
ExecStop=/usr/local/vpnserver/vpnserver stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[solo]

Remove whatever you inserted into /etc/init.d and then enable the service.

[xodc]

Remove whatever you inserted into /etc/init.d and then enable the service.

Sorry, I’m rather a newb at Linux. Do you mean I should delete the file I made at “sudo nano /etc/init.d/vpnserver”?


And after that, how do I “enable the service”? Thanks!

[solo]

Yes, just delete /etc/init.d/vpnserver

Then, "/lib/systemd/system/vpnserver.service" is already created and all it needs is "systemctl enable vpnserver"

[xodc]

Yes, just delete /etc/init.d/vpnserver

Then, "/lib/systemd/system/vpnserver.service" is already created and all it needs is "systemctl enable vpnserver"

Thank you so much. That worked out great.