pptpd vanish into thin air

  • Biggy Man
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    hi
    here is a crazy question
    can pptpd and imscp work together ?


    i have installed, configured pptpd and added 1732 and gre to iptables
    i start the pptpd daemon but get no connection from windows or linux machines
    when i look in htop there is no pptpd process running


    i did this instruction below
    serv@bbl:~$ /etc/init.d/pptpd restart
    Restarting PPTP:
    Stopping PPTP: pptpd.
    Starting PPTP Daemon: pptpd.
    serv@bbl:~$ killall pptp
    pptp: no process found
    serv@bbl:~$


    althoughthe pptpd is started when i kill the pptp it says no process found lol
    i get no errors when i try ti start, stop or restart pptpd.
    it seems like like it vanishes into thin air after starting


    thanks

    I'd check what happens if you start pptpd manually. Perhaps some configuration file is wrong/has a typo. Please look into the init script and find the command to call the pptpd and then do it at a console. Probably you have to remove some deamon mode. Try something like pptpd --help to see the commands.


    But then some big warning: PPTP is an old insecure protocol. If you want to VPN to your server try L2TP/IPsec which is hard to configure but Windows native client. I highly can recommend OpenVPN as well, which also has a good Windows client available. There are many tutorials available around the internet on how to setup a simple OpenVPN server.