On 03/07/17 15:09, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 03/07/17 14:50, SaAtomic wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to find a way to have OpenVPN log to the stdout AND a
>> logfile. I wouldn't want to use additional software such as `tee` for this.
>>
>> With --log or --log-append, no stdout is printed. --syslog doesn't help
>> here either.
>>
>> I assume it would be possible with --daemon and a custom program, that
>> prints to stdout and saves to a file.
>>
>> Is there a way to have OpenVPN print to stdout and a log file?
> # openvpn --log /var/log/my-openvpn.log
> 
> and then:
> 
> # tail -f /var/log/my-openvpn.log
> 
> 
> Except of that, no OpenVPN itself can only log to a single instance,
> which can file, syslog or stdout.  It is not possible to combine them in
> the OpenVPN configuration file.
> 

Oh, and the systemd approach (I just had to):

 # journalctl --since today -u openvpn-server@CONFIG_NAME -f


-- 
kind regards,

David Sommerseth
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc


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