<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Kaushal Shriyan <<a href="mailto:kaushalshriyan@gmail.com">kaushalshriyan@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, I have two openvpn site configs. I have configured openvpn in daemon mode and it needs to be restarted automatically while bootup. I am always faced with the below situation. and then i need to restart it manually. Dec 27 16:24:26 kaushal-laptop ovpn-sjc2[1287]: script failed: external program exited with error status: 1 Dec 27 16:24:26 kaushal-laptop ovpn-sjc2[1287]: Exiting Please suggest/guide Thanks Kaushal </blockquote></div> Hi I have enabled the verbose debugging in the client.conf and found out the below issue. ###################################################################################################################### /usr/sbin/postconf: fatal: open /etc/postfix/<a href="http://main.cf">main.cf</a>: No such file or directory cp: `/etc/resolv.conf' and `/etc/resolv.conf' are the same file run-parts: /etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/postfix exited with return code 1 run-parts: /etc/resolvconf/update.d/libc exited with return code 1 Tue Dec 28 11:26:32 2010 us=115929 script failed: external program exited with error status: 1 Tue Dec 28 11:26:32 2010 us=116004 Exiting ###################################################################################################################### I found out the issue. the program postfix was updating the same file /etc/resolv.conf , I have purged postfix on my desktop and it works perfectly fine now Thanks Kaushal