openvpn fills up syslog with “socket operation on non-socket (code=88)” restarts openvpn, to re-establish a secure channel for e-mail delivery between university and home server. As it turns out, quite often, after a network outage, I get the following sequence of events:
Jun 13, 2018 DD-WRT Forum :: View topic - OpenVPN NOT Starting Jul 17, 2011 OpenVPN VPN data allows you to track user activity while they are connected to the virtual private network, and additionally populates the location map with ingress activity. Before You Begin By default, some OpenVPN deployments will log to syslog automatically. Others, like OpenVPN AS, require a change t
If you are using the network manager plugin (network-manager-openvpn), look into /var/log/syslog. This should give you the last logs of openvpn: $ grep VPN /var/log/syslog Connection details are to be found in /etc/openvpn/
Instead of logging to a file it logs to syslog instead. If you want to redirect to another syslog server on the network you can configure the operating system’s syslog daemon to redirect any OpenVPN Access Server service syslog line to an external network syslog server. Where are the OpenVPN connection logs and configuration If you are using the network manager plugin (network-manager-openvpn), look into /var/log/syslog. This should give you the last logs of openvpn: $ grep VPN /var/log/syslog Connection details are to be found in /etc/openvpn/
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Nov 11, 2015 OpenVPN / Re: [Openvpn-users] Sending to syslog Hi, I recommend to not stick to the facility limitation of the last century's syslogd and rather filter by program name. You could add something like this to your rsyslog.conf: :programname,isequal,"openvpn" @192.168.0.1 or, if you have multiple instances of openvpn and set a different program name, e.g. $ openvpn --config service1.ovpn --syslog "openvpn-service1" you could also filter for a