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 ? :-) Possibly a better solution down the road would be to add some general log rotating utility in AstLinux. Lonnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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].
