Re: [Openvpn-users] Log rotation

["M Lu" <mlu919@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you.

I should have RTFMed more carefully. If I specify --log or --log-append
options, the log file is persistent over the entire course of an OpenVPN
instantiation and will not be reset by SIGHUP, SIGUSR1...

So  I decided to go with --deamon option as the log will write into the
system log and in my system the log rotation already processes syslog. Seems
that it works OK.

M Lu

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony den Haan" <tony@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Log rotation


> On Tuesday 02 November 2004 05:37, M Lu wrote:
> > Is there any script to rotate the log file, say every day? If I delete
the
> > log and touch it, OpenVPN does not write into it anymore.
>
> cp vpn.log && > vpn.log
>
> that's 'the' way to handle this
>
>
> tony
>
>
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ged Haywood" <ged@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:24 AM
Subject: [Openvpn-users] Re: Log rotation
> Hi there,
>
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 M Lu wrote:
>
> > Is there any script to rotate the log file, say every day?
>
> I guess you're using Linux, try 'man logrotate' at the command line.
>
> > If I delete the log and touch it, OpenVPN does not write into it
> > anymore.
>
> It's still writing to the original file.  You haven't really deleted
> it when you think you have.  The operating system still has it open,
> use 'lsof' to see that.
>
> The old file will be deleted if you stop vpn and restart it.  The
> 'logrotate' utility knows about things like that, it's the same for
> other daemons like webservers and mail transfer agents.
>
> 73,
> Ged.
>

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