Tinc at startup Debian 8 Jessie

[Liang Guo]

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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