[Bug 1200519] Re: "service openvpn restart" broken. Stop returns before finishing.

[Avery-yates]

Simon, thank you for taking the time to comment.
I have just now tested this on another identical machine running 12.04. As you said , the issue exists there as well. I must not have encountered it before today.

Still , this caused a part of my network to do down this morning when
openvpn had restarted during the update . It didn't cause anything
significant beyon,d having to call someone to press the reset button
though.

Would it be possible to use another technique to decide when the openvpn
service should return except for an arbitrary amount of seconds?  ( What
the person above here suggested maybe , though i don't really understand
what he means exactly) Or maybe add the ability to select the amount of
seconds to wait using /etc/default/openvpn or something similar.(which
does seem like a plaster on a wooden leg)

In my humble opinion this bug should stay open until a solution beyond
"sleep until it has cleaned up after itself" has been found.  Whether
restarting a service will work should not be at the mercy of such
things. It should be guaranteed to always work . If it doesn't it should
be fixed.

Friendly regards.
Avery.

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  "service openvpn restart" broken. Stop returns before finishing.

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