Re: Can a configuration item be cleared in the server.conf file

On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:59:01 +0000, tincantech via Openvpn-users
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>Hi,
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>On Sunday, January 21st, 2024 at 9:17 PM, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 09:08:01PM +0100, Bo Berglund wrote:
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>> > Now I wonder if there is anything at all one can do on a server instance level
>> > to disable that setting such that the timestamps are returned to the logfiles?
>> > Like:
>> > "reset suppress-timestamps"
>> > or similar?
>> 
>> 
>> OpenVPN does not assume to be called from something that sets undesired
>> variables to be cleared again later on - which would make the config
>> handling even more complex than it is today.
>> 
>> Systemd assumes that the world behaves like systemd developers think
>> it should, so "no timestamps" and "all logs go to the systemd journal".
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>If --suppress-timestamps use is aimed at systemd then perhaps options --log
>and --log-append, which both ultimately bypass systemd-journald, are in use
>then they could reset the --suppress-timestamps flag on use.
>
>If --suppress-timestamps is used after all --log* options then it would be in
>effect, like other options, whereby "last option wins!".
>
>Regards
>tct

My interest was started by your post in the other thread:

>> For posterity:
>> 
>> Server log --verb 4:
>> 
>> <verbatim>
>> 
>> 2024-01-21 03:06:59 us=764987 10.1.101.36:33510 [tct.66.c.w10.dan] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]10.1.101.36:33510
>> 2024-01-21 03:06:59 us=765204 MULTI: new connection by client 'tct.66.c.w10.dan' will cause previous active sessions by this client to be dropped.  Remember to >> use the --duplicate-cn option if you want multiple clients using the same certificate or username to concurrently connect.
>> 2024-01-21 03:06:59 us=765233 MULTI_sva: pool returned IPv4=10.126.66.121, IPv6=(Not enabled)
>> 2024-01-21 03:06:59 us=765311 OPTIONS IMPORT: reading client specific options from: tuns_12666u/CCD_subnet/tct.66.c.w10.dan
>> TEST --client-connect script
>> 
>> </verbatim>

The fact that your logs do not show the timestamp missing or using the
non-intuitive "seconds since 1970" or whatever it is that the
--suppress-timestamps gives you made me think I had somehow missed a setting...

Your timestamps is what I would like my logs to show.
And I specify a path to the logs inside the /etc/openvpn/log dir.

But your example might be from a system not using systemd?


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Bo Berglund
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