Adding additional routes to OpenVPN config while it is running

Virtual Private Networks OpenVPN
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Hello,

unfortunately it is not possible to add routes via IPFire GUI while the OpenVPN server is running. As everyone is working from home these days, I use the following workflow to circumvent this:

echo "${IP}/32" >> /var/ipfire/ovpn/routes_push
echo "push \"route ${IP} 255.255.255.255\"" >> /var/ipfire/ovpn/server.conf
killall openvpn; /usr/sbin/openvpn --config /var/ipfire/ovpn/server.conf

This works most of the time, but we had two occasions where we lost the VPN and had to restart it (which meant driving to the office).

Is there a better way? Restarting IPFire would probably be safer, but at the cost of downtime.

Lars