On 09.09.25 07:32, Gert Doering wrote:
I'd recommend to have the lines in the helper script changed to look like, e.g.,According to "man logger", this is what is running under...-t tag Mark every line in the log with the specified tag rather than the default of current login name. Use -t tag[N] to insert specific decimal process id instead of id of logger. ... but it could be a double uid in /etc/passwd
logger -t serverlocal-events -p auth.info --id=$$ -- "$common_name ..." because a) as you noticed, naming the script/service is usually more specific than the user(id) it's run under ;-) b) adapt the "-p" so that the lines appear wherever they're the easiest to find / correlate with OpenVPN's usual log output c) "--id=$$" is probably still useless in this context, but logging the PID of the "logger" command/child run from a shell script is pretty much *guaranteed* to *always* be useless d) "--" to guard against $common_name starting with a "-" Kind regards, -- Jochen Bern Systemingenieur Binect GmbH
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