diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 577a4ef8..052b0db7 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -255,6 +255,25 @@ Fedora:
     untracked: true
     when: always
 
+Fedora-noprocfs:
+  stage: testing
+  image: $CI_REGISTRY/$BUILD_IMAGES_PROJECT:$FEDORA_BUILD
+  script:
+  - chmod -R o-w tests/data/raddb
+  - git submodule update --init
+  - autoreconf -fvi
+  - ac_cv_file_FILE__proc_self_exe=no ./configure --disable-maintainer-mode --without-docker-tests
+  - make -j$JOBS
+  tags:
+  - shared
+  - linux
+  except:
+  - tags
+  artifacts:
+    expire_in: 1 day
+    untracked: true
+    when: on_failure
+
 # Tests seccomp filters by asking seccomp to fail with a trap
 seccomp/Fedora:
   stage: testing
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 647be4cd..ae7f95cb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,8 +15,13 @@ The program consists of:
 # Supported platforms
 
 The OpenConnect VPN server is designed and tested to work, with both IPv6
-and IPv4, on Linux systems. It is, however, known to work on FreeBSD, other
-BSD derived systems.
+and IPv4, on Linux systems. It is, however, known to work on FreeBSD,
+OpenBSD and other BSD derived systems.
+
+Known limitation is that on platforms, which do not support procfs(5),
+changes to the configuration must only be made while ocserv(8) is stopped.
+Not doing so will cause new worker processes picking up the new
+configuration while ocserv-main will use the previous configuration.
 
 
 # Build dependencies
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0ee424fb..70757320 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -642,6 +642,8 @@ fi
 AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_OIDC_AUTH,  test "x$enable_oidc_auth" = xyes)
 AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_OIDC_AUTH_TESTS, test "x$enable_oidc_auth" = xyes)
 
+AC_CHECK_FILE(/proc/self/exe, AC_DEFINE([PROC_FS_SUPPORTED],[1], [procfs supported]), [])
+
 uid=$(id -u)
 gid=$(id -g)
 AC_SUBST([ROOTUID], [$uid])
diff --git a/src/config.c b/src/config.c
index f24a15b4..dbcecfb1 100644
--- a/src/config.c
+++ b/src/config.c
@@ -1130,6 +1130,7 @@ static void parse_cfg_file(void *pool, const char *file, struct list_head *head,
 	ctx.reload = (flags&CFG_FLAG_RELOAD)?1:0;
 	ctx.head = head;
 
+#if defined(PROC_FS_SUPPORTED)
 	// Worker always reads from snapshot
 	if ((flags & CFG_FLAG_WORKER) == CFG_FLAG_WORKER) {
 		char * snapshot_file = NULL;
@@ -1192,6 +1193,27 @@ static void parse_cfg_file(void *pool, const char *file, struct list_head *head,
 		}
 
 	}
+#else
+	const char * cfg_file = file;
+
+	if (cfg_file == NULL) {
+		fprintf(stderr, ERRSTR"no config file!\n");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	/* parse configuration
+	*/
+	ret = ini_parse(cfg_file, cfg_ini_handler, &ctx);
+	if (ret < 0 && file != NULL && strcmp(file, DEFAULT_CFG_FILE) == 0) {
+		cfg_file = OLD_DEFAULT_CFG_FILE;
+		ret = ini_parse(cfg_file, cfg_ini_handler, &ctx);
+	}
+
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr, ERRSTR"cannot load config file %s\n", cfg_file);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+#endif
 
 	/* apply configuration not yet applied.
 	 * We start from the last, which is the default server (firstly
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index efc983dc..31b2f9cf 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -1015,9 +1015,7 @@ static void listen_watcher_cb (EV_P_ ev_io *w, int revents)
 	int cmd_fd[2];
 	pid_t pid;
 	hmac_component_st hmac_components[3];
-	char path[_POSIX_PATH_MAX];
 	char worker_path[_POSIX_PATH_MAX];
-	size_t path_length;
 
 	if (ltmp->sock_type == SOCK_TYPE_TCP || ltmp->sock_type == SOCK_TYPE_UNIX) {
 		/* connection on TCP port */
@@ -1117,16 +1115,27 @@ static void listen_watcher_cb (EV_P_ ev_io *w, int revents)
 			safe_memset((uint8_t*)s->hmac_key, 0, sizeof(s->hmac_key));
 
 			set_env_from_ws(s);
-			path_length = readlink("/proc/self/exe", path, sizeof(path)-1);
-			if (path_length == -1) {
-				mslog(s, NULL, LOG_ERR, "readlink failed %s", strerror(ret));
-				exit(1);
-			}
-			path[path_length] = '\0';
-			if (snprintf(worker_path, sizeof(worker_path), "%s-worker", path) >= sizeof(worker_path)) {
-				mslog(s, NULL, LOG_ERR, "snprint of path %s and ocserv-worker failed", path);
+#if defined(PROC_FS_SUPPORTED)
+			{
+				char path[_POSIX_PATH_MAX];
+				size_t path_length;
+				path_length = readlink("/proc/self/exe", path, sizeof(path)-1);
+				if (path_length == -1) {
+					mslog(s, NULL, LOG_ERR, "readlink failed %s", strerror(ret));
+					exit(1);
+				}
+				path[path_length] = '\0';
+				if (snprintf(worker_path, sizeof(worker_path), "%s-worker", path) >= sizeof(worker_path)) {
+					mslog(s, NULL, LOG_ERR, "snprint of path %s and ocserv-worker failed", path);
+					exit(1);
+				}
+			}
+#else
+			if (snprintf(worker_path, sizeof(worker_path), "%s-worker", worker_argv[0]) >= sizeof(worker_path)) {
+				mslog(s, NULL, LOG_ERR, "snprint of path %s and ocserv-worker failed", worker_argv[0]);
 				exit(1);
 			}
+#endif
 
 			worker_argv[0] = worker_path;
 			execv(worker_path, worker_argv);