Notes about the OpenVPN package In a fresh installation, you will find an empty directory /etc/openvpn. The directory is meant to contain *.conf files -- the openvpn init script will automatically look for them there, so you can start/stop all tunnels with "rcopenvpn (start|stop)", as well as starting them at boot time. With openSUSE post-12.3 either all instances are handled by calling 'systemctl openvpn.target' or one named service 'systemctl openvpn@.service' while the configuration is stored in a file named /etc/openvpn/.conf .