Re: Can a configuration item be cleared in the server.conf file
Bo Berglund <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 10:52:22 +0100, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 09:55:58AM +0100, Bo Berglund wrote: >> I really wonder why it uses this terrible illogical display with the day name >> first? >> >> So how can I change it to use the ISO 8601 format? > >Well. There's --machine-readable-output, I think, This outputs a terrible string looking looking like the seconds since very long ago with a very long decimal part too. So in order to get an actual readable date I removed the setting --machine-readable-output too. > and also > > https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/719 > >which says that from 2.5.0 on, there should be POSIX timestamps. > >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] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Aug 21 2023 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020, LZO 2.10 > >Maybe it's a bit more convoluted ("depending on logging mode, format might >be different"), but a good test would be to run > >$ openvpn --show-gateway > >which should print something like > >2024-02-05 10:51:14 ROUTE_GATEWAY 193.149.48.190/255.255.255.192 IFACE=igb0 HWADDR=3c:ec:ef:9e:4a:a4 >2024-02-05 10:51:14 ROUTE6_GATEWAY 2001:608:4::1 IFACE=igb0 > >... with a nice and shiny ISO timestamp. Well not quite so: $ openvpn --show-gateway Mon Feb 5 12:15:15 2024 ROUTE_GATEWAY 192.168.119.1/255.255.255.0 IFACE=eth0 HWADDR=a4:ae:12:7f:4d:c3 It looks like a kind of locale thing, thinking that it is a US location, but it uses the CET time zone notwithstanding: $ date Mon 05 Feb 2024 12:23:43 PM CET It is the correct Swedish time when I hit enter, so it uses the US time format but knows that it is in central Europe time-wise... -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden