The client is not yet working, so ISTM I need to keep my OpenVPN log @ /var/log/openvpn.log fairly informative. Unfortunately I started getting notification=Low Disk Space on "Filesystem root", since I have /var on my LVM2 root volume. After manually deleting /var/log/openvpn.log a few times, I decided, "time to learn to use logrotate".

Logging and debug flag options for Access Server | OpenVPN You can then grab the /var/log/openvpnas.log file for analysis and start the Access Server again: service openvpnas start Setting up log rotation for /var/log/openvpnas.log.* OpenVPN Access Server normally keeps on logging until the disk is full. It does do rotation of log files, but the amount of log … VPN — OpenVPN — OpenVPN Logs | pfSense Documentation OpenVPN Logs¶. The OpenVPN logs found through the pfSense® webGUI at Status > System Logs and the OpenVPN tab show output from the OpenVPN daemon(s) in use, both clients and servers. Messages are shown in the logs for successful connections as well as failures and errors.

tls-server # server binding port port 12112 # openvpn protocol, could be tcp / udp / tcp6 / udp6 proto udp # tun/tap device dev tun0 # keys configuration, use generated keys ca example/ca.crt cert example/example.crt key example/example.key dh example/dh2048.pem # optional tls-auth key to secure identifying # tls-auth example/ta.key 0 # OpenVPN 'virtual' network infomation, network and mask

The OpenVPN logs found through the pfSense® webGUI at Status > System Logs and the OpenVPN tab show output from the OpenVPN daemon(s) in use, both clients and servers. Messages are shown in the logs for successful connections as well as failures and errors.

So now I wrote a script that restarts openvpn at the beginning of every month after it updates a symlink to the new log file's location. But this script seems to be buggy and sometimes fails to start the server correctly (tun0 is down sometimes).

logging - Openvpn client log file - Stack Overflow I have set up a openvpn client (version 2.3.12) on a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian 7 whezzy) and I configured a vpntest.conf file in the folder /etc/openvpn. The connection is working when I call it with [Solved]Openvpn socket bind failed on local address Jan 26, 2015 OpenWrt Project: OpenVPN basic