tinc - Jan 2018 - Tinc at startup Debian 8 Jessie

Dear mailing list,

How do I make Tinc auto start on Debian 8 Jessie?
I’ve compiled and installed the latest stable release tinc-1.0.33 and I’ve tried
this:

nano /usr/local/etc/tinc/nets.boot
Added the netname of my vpn

sudo service tinc start

Should work according to:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-tinc-and-set-up-a-basic-vpn-on-ubuntu-14-04
<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-tinc-and-set-up-a-basic-vpn-on-ubuntu-14-04>

But it doesn’t run on a reboot.

Also tried:

systemctl enable tinc
systemctl enable tinc at vpnname

But I run into errors

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tinc#Automatically_Starting_Tinc_at_boot
<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tinc#Automatically_Starting_Tinc_at_boot>

What’s the official recommended way to run Tinc at startup on Debian?
Can’t find anything mentioned about this in the documentation.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Jip
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On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 05:14:47PM +0100, Jip de Beer wrote:
> How do I make Tinc auto start on Debian 8 Jessie?
Jessie uses systemd by default, so normally you'd have to tell systemd
to start tinc automatically. The tinc package that comes with Debian
provides the systemd service files necessary, however:
> I’ve compiled and installed the latest stable release tinc-1.0.33 and I’ve
tried this:
> 
> nano /usr/local/etc/tinc/nets.boot
There are two problems here: the systemd service files don't read
nets.boot, and if you installed tinc in /usr/local, then the systemd
service files that come with tinc (both from the official Debian package
and the 1.0.33 tarball) assume that the tincd binary is installed in
/usr/sbin/.
> Should work according to:
>
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-tinc-and-set-up-a-basic-vpn-on-ubuntu-14-04
<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-tinc-and-set-up-a-basic-vpn-on-ubuntu-14-04>
Ubuntu 14.04 is much older than Debian jessie, and doesn't use systemd,
so the instructions about nets.boot are not appropriate for your system.
> Also tried:
> 
> systemctl enable tinc
> systemctl enable tinc at vpnname
That's the correct way. However, you may have to edit the file
/lib/systemd/system/tinc at .service, and change /usr/sbin/tincd to
/usr/local/sbin/tincd.
> What’s the official recommended way to run Tinc at startup on Debian?
> Can’t find anything mentioned about this in the documentation.
You're right, I'll add a section about it in the manual.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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Dear Guus,

Thanks for the reply.
I still run into some issues.
Because the repositories host an older release (1.0.24-2.1+b1) of Tinc, I
decided to build and install the Tinc 1.0.33 release.

On a fresh install of Debian 8 I’ve done the following:

cd /tmp/
wget http://tinc-vpn.org/packages/tinc-1.0.33.tar.gz
tar xvzf tinc-1.0.33.tar.gz

apt-get install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev liblzo2-dev build-essential automake
autoconf gettext texinfo

cd tinc-1.0.33
./configure && make && make install

mkdir -p /usr/local/var/run/

No problems with building and Tinc works.
As you can see I didn’t choose any directory to install Tinc into (/usr/local vs
/usr/sbin/).
That just happend by default.
So I’d expect that the contents of files like tinc at .service, which are
supposed to be part if the installation, also follow the default installation
paths.

I tried to change /usr/sbin/tincd to /usr/local/sbin/tincd inside
/lib/systemd/system/tinc at .service like you say but there’s nothing there.
I’m still unable to launch Tinc on system startup.
Could you help me out?

Including these instructions in the manual would be a great addition :)

Best regards,
Jip

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:12 PM, Jip de Beer <jip.de.beer at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear Guus,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> I still run into some issues.
> Because the repositories host an older release (1.0.24-2.1+b1) of Tinc, I
decided to build and install the Tinc 1.0.33 release.
>
> On a fresh install of Debian 8 I’ve done the following:
>
> cd /tmp/
> wget http://tinc-vpn.org/packages/tinc-1.0.33.tar.gz
> tar xvzf tinc-1.0.33.tar.gz
>
> apt-get install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev liblzo2-dev build-essential automake
autoconf gettext texinfo
>
> cd tinc-1.0.33
> ./configure && make && make install
>
> mkdir -p /usr/local/var/run/
>
> No problems with building and Tinc works.
> As you can see I didn’t choose any directory to install Tinc into
(/usr/local vs /usr/sbin/).
> That just happend by default.
> So I’d expect that the contents of files like tinc at .service, which are
supposed to be part if the installation, also follow the default installation
paths.
>
> I tried to change /usr/sbin/tincd to /usr/local/sbin/tincd inside
/lib/systemd/system/tinc at .service like you say but there’s nothing there.
> I’m still unable to launch Tinc on system startup.
> Could you help me out?
>
> Including these instructions in the manual would be a great addition :)
>
> Best regards,
> Jip
Debian support tinc config in /etc/network/interfaces, just add
following line in your interface file.

auto tincvpn
iface tincvpn inet static
        address x.x.x.x
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        tinc-net do
        tinc-debug 1
        tinc-user nobody
        tinc-pidfile /tmp/tinc.pid
        tinc-logfile /tmp/tinc.log

for more detailed information, please reference to
/usr/share/doc/tinc/README.Debian

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Liang Guo
http://guoliang.me/