With Debian Jessie, they modified a bit the starting process. I won't get into details because it is not the goal of this article.
Below, you have the proper way to enable and start openvpn.
You want to enable the gz config:
root@bubaz:~# ls -la /etc/openvpn/ | grep .conf -rw-r----- 1 root root 3450 Feb 8 2015 gz.conf
Prior to start, you must enable it via systemctl command:
root@bubaz:~# systemctl enable openvpn@gz Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/openvpn@gz.service to /lib/systemd/system/openvpn@.service. root@bubaz:~# systemctl start openvpn root@bubaz:~#
Up and running:
root@bubaz:~# ps -ef|grep -i open | grep -v grep root 10374 1 0 06:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/openvpn --daemon ovpn-gz --status /run/openvpn/gz.status 10 --cd /etc/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/gz.conf
That's it!