Re: Client history

> On Friday, February 23rd, 2024 at 12:36 PM, Bo Berglund <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:12:47 +0000, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users
> [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Thanks again.
> > You right. Logs are under "/tmp/systemd-private-0b76fd773c1b491090b475708960936b-openvpn\@server.service-kEyUKj/tmp/Connections.log".
> > 
> > Why is nothing written to the file when I create it in the "/var/log/openvpn directory"?
> > 
> > # ls -l /var/log/openvpn/
> > total 40
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 23 10:16 Connections.log
> > -rw------- 1 root root 603 Feb 23 11:41 openvpn-status.log
> > -rw------- 1 root root 30242 Feb 23 11:40 openvpn.log
> 
> 
> Why don't you (at least for testing that the script works) do as follows:
> 
> /etc/openvpn/server/server.conf:
> --------------------------------
> script-security 2
> client-connect /etc/openvpn/scripts/server-events.sh
> client-disconnect /etc/openvpn/scripts/server-events.sh
> 
> /etc/openvpn/scripts/server-events.sh:
> --------------------------------------
> # Log file path
> LOG_FILE="/etc/openvpn/log/server-events.log"
> 
> (Notice case of the identifier!, see below)
> 
> On the command line:
> --------------------
> if you do not yet have a dir /etc/openvpn/log then do:
> 
> sudo mkdir /etc/openvpn/log
> 
> DO NOT create the log file there, let the script do it for you so the
> permissions will be correctly set!
> 
> Now restart the openvpn server and make a connect attempt, then check the
> /etc/openvpn/log dir for the logfile.
> 
> IMPORTANT:
> ==========
> And please note that all identifiers are case sensitive in Linux so the
> entry in your earlier post:
> 
> log_file="/tmp/Connections.log"
> 
> is NOT compatible with the script as I had written it where the variable
> LOG_FILE is used...
> 
> 
> --
> Bo Berglund
> Developer in Sweden
> 
> 
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Hello,
Sorry, I forgot to tell you that you script never worked!
I found another script as below:

log_file="/tmp/Connections.log"
# Vars used:
date_now="$(date +'%F-%H:%M')"
line="User '$common_name' \
at $date_now \
using $ifconfig_pool_remote_ip \
from ${trusted_ip}:${trusted_port}"
# Append to the log
echo "$line" >> "$log_file"
# END User Connect Accounting
exit 0

But this script cannot write anything in "/tmp/Connections.log" file, but under the directory "/tmp/systemd-private-0b76fd773c1b491090b475708960936b-openvpn@server.service" it can write the information correctly.

I am back to your script. I did:

# mkdir /etc/openvpn/Log/

Then, changed the script as below:

LOG_FILE="/etc/openvpn/Log/Connections.log"

Then:

# systemctl restart openvpn

But:

# ls /etc/openvpn/Log/
#

No files have been created.