On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:59:01 +0000, tincantech via Openvpn-users <openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA256 > >Hi, > >On Sunday, January 21st, 2024 at 9:17 PM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> >wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 09:08:01PM +0100, Bo Berglund wrote: >> >> > Now I wonder if there is anything at all one can do on a server instance >> > level >> > to disable that setting such that the timestamps are returned to the >> > logfiles? >> > Like: >> > "reset suppress-timestamps" >> > or similar? >> >> >> OpenVPN does not assume to be called from something that sets undesired >> variables to be cleared again later on - which would make the config >> handling even more complex than it is today. >> >> Systemd assumes that the world behaves like systemd developers think >> it should, so "no timestamps" and "all logs go to the systemd journal". > >If --suppress-timestamps use is aimed at systemd then perhaps options --log >and --log-append, which both ultimately bypass systemd-journald, are in use >then they could reset the --suppress-timestamps flag on use. > >If --suppress-timestamps is used after all --log* options then it would be in >effect, like other options, whereby "last option wins!". > >Regards >tct My interest was started by your post in the other thread: >> For posterity: >> >> Server log --verb 4: >> >> <verbatim> >> >> 2024-01-21 03:06:59 us=764987 10.1.101.36:33510 [tct.66.c.w10.dan] Peer >> Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]10.1.101.36:33510 >> 2024-01-21 03:06:59 us=765204 MULTI: new connection by client >> 'tct.66.c.w10.dan' will cause previous active sessions by this client to be >> dropped. Remember to >> use the --duplicate-cn option if you want multiple >> clients using the same certificate or username to concurrently connect. >> 2024-01-21 03:06:59 us=765233 MULTI_sva: pool returned IPv4=10.126.66.121, >> IPv6=(Not enabled) >> 2024-01-21 03:06:59 us=765311 OPTIONS IMPORT: reading client specific >> options from: tuns_12666u/CCD_subnet/tct.66.c.w10.dan >> TEST --client-connect script >> >> </verbatim> The fact that your logs do not show the timestamp missing or using the non-intuitive "seconds since 1970" or whatever it is that the --suppress-timestamps gives you made me think I had somehow missed a setting... Your timestamps is what I would like my logs to show. And I specify a path to the logs inside the /etc/openvpn/log dir. But your example might be from a system not using systemd? -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
