On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 14:04:38 +0100, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote:
>Hi, > >On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 12:25:51PM +0100, Bo Berglund wrote: >> >How old is your OpenVPN? >> >> This is on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server: >> >> Aug 21 2023: >> >> $ openvpn --version >> OpenVPN 2.4.12 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] >> [PKCS11] > >Ah, yes. So that's a bit of an antique :-) $ apt policy openvpn openvpn: Installed: 2.4.12-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Candidate: 2.4.12-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Cannot get anything newer... >> It looks like a kind of locale thing, thinking that it is a US location, but >> it >> uses the CET time zone notwithstanding: > >No, it's just old OpenVPN. The ticket I linked to shows that I changed >the logging timestamp to ISO format "for 2.5.0". Your 2.4.12 has a >release date younger than 2.5.0 (due to overlapping release trains), but >feature-wise, it's older. > >We maintain multiple releases in parallel (like, 2.4.x and 2.5.x, or now >2.5.x and 2.6.x). Features get added to "master" and show up in the next >.0 release (2.5.0, 2.6.0). After that, only bugfixes (and sometimes minor >features) get added to .1, .2, .3 releases - "changing time stamps and >making logs look very different" was seen as breaking change, so even >if the code change is small, not suitable for integration in 2.4.9->2.4.10. > >See also: > https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/SupportedVersions > > >IOW, yes, the old code was using the C function "ctime()", which will >print "something locale based". The new code changes that to an ISO 8601 >based format, locale independent >Date: Sat Jun 20 19:23:03 2020 +0200 > > Change timestamps in file-based logging to ISO 8601 time format. > Thanks for the clarification! That is exactly what I need... Can I upgrade the apt installed openvpn to 2.5 even though it is not offered by the apt system? NOTE ---- On the *other* Ubuntu server running openvpn, which is Ubuntu Server 22.04.3 LTS (was upgraded back in October) the version is: $ apt policy openvpn openvpn: Installed: 2.5.9-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 Candidate: 2.5.9-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 it shows this using the command suggested earlier: $ openvpn --show-gateway 2024-02-05 07:41:09 ROUTE_GATEWAY 10.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 IFACE=eth0 HWADDR=00:50:56:9e:c6:86 But the logs do not show any timestamp at all... A typical line: HasanA_AGI/83.**.**.105:59902 [Hasan****] Inactivity timeout (--ping-restart), restarting So here the server logs are totally without timestamps and there is nothing in the /lib/systemd/system/openvpn-server@.service file about logging either. EXITING.... I think I will drop this altogether, the servers are doing their thing anyway... -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
