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SoftEther is not starting after reboot

I’ve followed this guide three times, each time I’ve destroyed the droplet and created it again.

Everything is fine unless SoftEther (vpnserver) is not automatically starting after reboot.

Manual start works fine.

How to troubleshoot it?

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KFSys • October 25, 2021

Hi @omidshojaee,

Have you checked the following sectioN:

If you like SoftEther to start as a service on startup create a file named vpnserver in /etc/init.d directory and change it to the following:

First, create and open the file using vi or nano:

vi /etc/init.d/vpnserver

And paste the following into the file:

#!/bin/sh
# chkconfig: 2345 99 01
# description: SoftEther VPN Server
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
exit 0

Finally, save and close the file by pressing ESC and typing :wq to close vim.

We have to make a directory at /var/lock/subsys if one does not exist:

mkdir /var/lock/subsys

Now change the permission for the startup script and start vpnserver using command below:

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/vpnserver && /etc/init.d/vpnserver start

Use the command below make it to run at startup:

Debian / Ubuntu:

update-rc.d vpnserver defaults