So I needed the ability to have my Pi MusicBox, from my previous post, use OpenVPN to talk to the internet without restrictions. This is what I had to do to make it work.

This is not a post on how to setup an OpenVPN server. I assume you already know how to do this.

• Install openvpn and resolvconf on the PI MusicBox.

• sudo apt-get install openvpn resolvconf

• Create PIMusicBox.conf client openvpn config file. Make sure it goes into /etc/openvpn folder.
  • At the bottom of the PIMusicBox.conf file you need to add the following lines

    • up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
      down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf

  • Link the auto-generated resolv.conf to the existing resolv.conf

    • cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.orig
      rm -f /etc/resolv.conf
      ln -s /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

Setup openvpn to start on reboot.

• Edit /etc/default/openvpn file
  • Change the line that starts with

    • #AUTOSTART="all"

    • to

    • AUTOSTART="all"

    • Just remove the # sign from the beginning of that line.
  • Change the line that starts with

    • OPTARGS=""

    • to

    • OPTARGS="--script-security 2"

From here you should be able to reboot the system and openvpn will startup automagically.