Am 30.06.2013 um 01:51 schrieb Lonnie Abelbeck <[email protected]>:
> Hi, > > Yesterday I noticed my main AstLinux box /var was filed at 10 GB. The > culprit was "/var/log/openvpn.log" . > > After some investigating this was caused by the OpenVPN Connect (1.0.1 build > 88) app on my iOS device (I assume Android would be the same). AFAIK, the > OpenVPN Connect 1.0.0 version did not behave the same way. > > Quick answer, the solution is to set OpenVPN Server -> Log Verbosity: [ None > ], whereby only significant errors will be logged on the production server. > > The details... > > I use the default general setting of "Reconnect on wakeup" ON, so even when > the iOS device is off, every 5 minutes it authenticates itself and keeps the > OpenVPN session active while sleeping. This simple process can generate a > fair amount of logging. To add to the errors after using the iOS device > externally and then moving the iOS device to the local WiFi network there > were a lot of replay errors since the raw command "multihome" was not set so > the return path would not be correct. By setting the raw command "multihome" > the OpenVPN session will re-connect locally without errors (assuming you are > using UDP). Regardless, there is still a lot of logs generated over time. > > If I set the default general setting of "Reconnect on wakeup" OFF, the > logging problem goes away, but clearly this is very cool feature of the > OpenVPN Connect app, so I want it ON. > > Of course if you can always remember to turn off the OpenVPN connection when > you are finished that would be the best, but who does that ? :-) I normally do :-). > Possibly a better solution down the road would be to add some general log > rotating utility in AstLinux. > > Lonnie There is already a logrotate package in BR2, I think I mentioned it a while ago. Sent from my iPad Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
