Re: Failed to reload openvpn.service: Job type reload is not applicable for unit openvpn.service.

Bo Berglund <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.openvpn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:59:15 +0000, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hello,
>Why can't I reload the OpenVPN service?
>
># systemctl reload openvpn
>Failed to reload openvpn.service: Job type reload is not applicable for unit openvpn.service.
>#
># systemctl reload openvpn@ServerFailed to reload [email protected]: Job type reload is not applicable for unit [email protected].
>
>Thank you.

Probably because you used the wrong command...
Try this instead, it works for me 100% of the times:

sudo systemctl restart openvpn-server@server

(If your server is named something else like serverweb then replace the text
after @)


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden
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