I will make the clarification On Sat, Apr 5, 2025, 10:24 AM Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:21:26 +0200, David Sommerseth via Openvpn-users > <openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > >By default on most distributions today, you need to manually create the > >/var/log/journal directory to enable persistent logging - or set > >Storage=persistent in /etc/systemd/journald.conf. Without this, the > >logging happens only in memory and is wiped across boots. > > > >So I strongly recommend you to use the systemd-journal. It will give > >you access to all the log entries you're looking for incredibly quickly. > > And it's a tool you have available out-of-the-box. > > Thanks for your description! It seems like I should perhaps stop using > local > logging... > > Follow-up questions: > > 1) If I do create the /var/log/journal dir on the server do I also remove > the > log directive in the server.conf file altogether and restart the service? > And now the log will be handled exclusively by jornalctl? > > 2) Does no other services use journalctl and thus create the > /var/log/journal > dir? If they do then (since they should have created the dir already) is > the > sigle action needed to just remove the log directive from server.conf? > (and restart the openvpn service)? > > 3) On my openvpn server at home I have the same openvpn setup for the > logging as > on the smaller remote servers and here I have just checked that there is a > /var/log/journal dir and it contains a single subdir named > 60ef45f7ddcb44b69eb486e25a9b4894 > So I have this and I don't know if that is a general logging dir or the one > openvpn server has created for journalctl... > What is it, how to find out? > > 4) On my main home server I have written a utility that lets me check which > clients are currently connected and this utility looks like this: > > #!/bin/bash > #List active OpenVPN clients > > CMDW="sudo cat /etc/openvpn/log/openvpn-status.log | grep CLIENT_LIST | > sed -n > '1!p'" > CMDL="sudo cat /etc/openvpn/log/ovpn-status_local.log | grep CLIENT_LIST | > sed > -n '1!p'" > > echo -e "------------------------\nWeb access clients:" > eval "$CMDW" > echo -e "\nLocal access clients:" > eval "$CMDL" > echo "------------------------" > > What is does is to list the currently connected clients such that I can > choose a > service restart time when there are no active clients for instance. > > But it uses the two status log files specified in the two server instances > conf > files (I have one instance for using the VPN as a gateway into the Swedish > Internet and another to use only for local access to my home LAN). > Will this be affected if I remove the log directive? > > TIA > > > -- > Bo Berglund > Developer in Sweden > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-users mailing list > Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users >
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