my openvpn util script

myopenvpn.sh

THISDIR=`pwd`
CMD=$1
CONFNAME=$2

function usage {
  echo "usage: sudo $0 start/status/stop <conf_name>"
}

function openvpn_start {
  #echo "openvpn --daemon --writepid /var/run/openvpn/${CONFNAME}.pid --cd ${THISDIR}/${CONFNAME} --config ${CONFNAME}.ovpn"
  openvpn --daemon --writepid /var/run/openvpn/${CONFNAME}.pid --cd ${THISDIR}/${CONFNAME} --config ${CONFNAME}.ovpn
}

function openvpn_test {
  openvpn --writepid /var/run/openvpn/${CONFNAME}.pid --cd ${THISDIR}/${CONFNAME} --config ${CONFNAME}.ovpn
}

function openvpn_status {
  if [ -f /var/run/openvpn/${CONFNAME}.pid ]; then
    if ps -p `cat /var/run/openvpn/${CONFNAME}.pid` >/dev/null
    then
      echo "Process(" `cat /var/run/openvpn/${CONFNAME}.pid` ") is running..."
    else
      echo "/var/run/openvpn/${CONFNAME}.pid exist but process is dead."
    fi
  else
    echo "Can not find pid file."
  fi
}

function openvpn_stop {
  kill `cat /var/run/openvpn/${CONFNAME}.pid`
  rm /var/run/openvpn/${CONFNAME}.pid
}

if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
  usage
  exit 1
fi

if [ $EUID -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "This script need to be run as root."
  usage
  exit 1
fi

case $CMD in

start)
  openvpn_start
  ;;

test)
  openvpn_test
  ;;

status)
  openvpn_status
  ;;

stop)
  openvpn_stop
  ;;

*)
  usage
  exit 1
  ;;

esac

Place this script in some folder with openvpn conf dirs, as follows

[liyu@localhost openvpn]$ tree .
.
├── ccbp
│   ├── ccbp.crt
│   ├── ccbp.ovpn
│   ├── clustertech.crt
│   └── clustertech.key
├── clustertech
│   ├── clustertech.crt
│   └── clustertech.ovpn
└── myopenvpn.sh

2 directories, 7 files

and then

sudo ./myopenvpn.sh start ccbp