openvpn3-ser...-backendstart(8)

💖 NAME 💖

openvpn3-service-backendstart — the OpenVPN 3 Linux VPN client backend starter, bestie. It's the little guy that goes and wakes up the actual client process. 🫶

This page lives in the OpenVPN 3 Linux manual, section 8 (system administration / daemons, iykyk).

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

openvpn3-service-backendstart [OPTIONS]
openvpn3-service-backendstart -h | --help

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so picture this: openvpn3-service-sessionmgr decides it's time for a brand new VPN tunnel to pop off. Who does it call? Not you. It calls this service. And <rainbow>automatically</rainbow> — like, nobody even has to ask twice.

This service is literally kickstarting openvpn3-service-client for you, and it hands over enough info so that client can go register itself against a session object over in the openvpn3-service-sessionmgr service. Teamwork, honestly. 👑

Normally you never touch this thing yourself — it gets auto-started on demand through the net.openvpn.v3.backendstart.service auto-start config by dbus-daemon(1). So it's basically backstage crew with main character energy. 💅

You can start it manually from the command line if you want. But — and hear me out —

⚠️ Beware, bestie: if you run this with any user account other than _openvpn, you're also gonna have to update the D-Bus policy too. No shortcuts, no cap.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — prints the usage and help deets straight to your terminal. The classic. 🙈
• --version — prints the version of the program and then exits. Short and sweet. ✨
• --idle-exit SECONDS — sets how long this service is allowed to just... exist... with nothing to do. For openvpn3-service-backendstart the default is 30 seconds. Set it to 0 and the idle detection is turned off completely. Live your truth. 💀
• --log-level LEVEL — the default log verbosity for log events this service spits out. Default is 3. Valid values run from 0 to 6. Higher = more yapping. Log level 6 contains all the debug log events, every last one. 🔥
• --client-log-level LEVEL — adds the --log-level option with the argument you gave when it starts up the openvpn3-service-client process. So the client gets the same energy. 💜
• --client-log-file FILE — saves the log output to FILE. Or, if you use the stdout: keyword instead, the log output goes to your current terminal. Pick your vibe. 🌈
• --client-colour — adds the --colour option when starting the openvpn3-service-client process. Pretty logs, we love to see it. 🎀
• --client-disable-protect-socket — adds the --disable-protect-socket option when starting the openvpn3-service-client process. That's the whole job, she's simple. 🌸

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

dbus-daemon(1) openvpn3(1) openvpn3-service-client(8)

Go read those next, bestie, they're all connected. 🧚

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And that's the whole page, periodt. This one comes out of the OpenVPN 3 Linux manual collection, page name openvpn3-ser...-backendstart(8) — and yeah, the footer at the bottom just repeats that exact same page name right back at you, cute of it honestly. Now go forth and start some backends. 👑💖