Torgaurd will not start with Crontab at reboot

Question

I'm currently using the guide posted on Torguard here. Everything work perfectly up until setting up the cronjob to start at reboot.

This is the steps I've taken:

crontab -e

and then adding this line below my other cronjobs:

@reboot sudo openvpn --daemon --cd /etc/openvpn --config TorGuard.Canada.ovpn

When I reboot, TorGuard has not restarted.

Answer 1

First of all, sudo doesn't work in crontabs.

Next, you need to specify the full path to the .ovpn file.

Instead of this:

TorGuard.Canada.ovpn

you need something like this instead:

/home/just_some_guy/Downloads/TorGuard.Canada.ovpn

However, I believe this is not the recommended way to do this. See related post.