Re: Client history

> On Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 at 5:01 PM, Bo Berglund <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:07:13 +0100, Marc SCHAEFER [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 12:52:17PM +0000, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users wrote:
> > 
> > > # #!/bin/bash
> > > # export script_type="client-connect"
> > > # export common_name="CommonName"
> > > # export trusted_ip="192.168.129.253"
> > > # ./server-events.sh
> > 
> > I did not follow the whole discussion, but why on earth are you assuming that
> > your current directly is somewhere known? This is what ./ means:
> > run server-events.sh in the current directory.
> > 
> > Put your script in /usr/local/OPENVPN/scripts and call it as
> > /usr/local/OPENVPN/scripts/server-events.sh for example.
> > 
> > > So, why is the script not working in OpenVPN?
> > 
> > If the problem is locating ./server-events.sh it is possible that OpenVPN log
> > itself (or syslog, or the systemd journal) has some stderr output.
> > 
> > There are other possibly problems, such as access rights (depending on what
> > user the script is run on, possibly root).
> 
> 
> I am running all openvpn scripts from within /etc/openvpn/scripts and I use
> the full path to the scripts in the conf files calls.
> 
> I also keep all of the custom logs (as defined in the conf file) below
> /etc/openvpn/log, which is also perfectly accessile by tye openvpn service.
> 
> I can for the life of me not understan why someone is hell bent on complicating
> the issues here by wandering around in circles in all kinds of strange locations
> like:
> LOG_FILE="/tmp/Connections.log"
> 
> It is like using /var/log and hoping for the best....
> 
> It never turns out as you want...
> 
> 
> --
> Bo Berglund
> Developer in Sweden
> 
> 
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Hello,
As suggested by someone here, I chose the /tmp directory because it doesn't need any special permissions and I can make sure the script runs correctly.