Hi,

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 02:01:54PM -0300, Dante F. B. Colò wrote:
> I'm looking for some better way to generate a report of users sessions 
> only to get info when they start and end a session , currently i do it 
> with a shell script that looks for lines in the openvpn log file when 
> someone connect and authenticate successfully and for disconnection i 
> look for those lines when a client send a explicit notify or signals 
> SIGTERM and SIGUSR. If someone here know a proper way to do it or some 
> ready tool /software that generate this info please help me.

orr...

--client-connect $script
--client-disconnect $script

there is a zillion hooks inside OpenVPN to "notify external parties" 
(plugin, script, management-interface) when "things happen".

Look for "client-connect" in "man openvpn".  It will explain the option
syntax, as well as the calling convention, environment variables passed, ...

gert

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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             g...@greenie.muc.de

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