[Openvpn-users] How to log to stdout AND logfile

[SaAtomic]

Hello,

I'm trying to find a way to have OpenVPN log to the stdout AND a logfile. I wouldn't want to use additional software such as `tee` for this.

With --log or --log-append, no stdout is printed. --syslog doesn't help here either.

I assume it would be possible with --daemon and a custom program, that prints to stdout and saves to a file.

Is there a way to have OpenVPN print to stdout and a log file?

Kind regards,
SaAtomic

[David Sommerseth]

Post by SaAtomic
Hello,
I'm trying to find a way to have OpenVPN log to the stdout AND a
logfile. I wouldn't want to use additional software such as `tee` for this.
With --log or --log-append, no stdout is printed. --syslog doesn't help here either.
I assume it would be possible with --daemon and a custom program, that
prints to stdout and saves to a file.
Is there a way to have OpenVPN print to stdout and a log file?

# openvpn --log /var/log/my-openvpn.log

and then:

# tail -f /var/log/my-openvpn.log


Except of that, no OpenVPN itself can only log to a single instance,
which can file, syslog or stdout. It is not possible to combine them in
the OpenVPN configuration file.

[David Sommerseth]

Post by David Sommerseth

Post by SaAtomic
Hello,
I'm trying to find a way to have OpenVPN log to the stdout AND a
logfile. I wouldn't want to use additional software such as `tee` for this.
With --log or --log-append, no stdout is printed. --syslog doesn't help here either.
I assume it would be possible with --daemon and a custom program, that
prints to stdout and saves to a file.
Is there a way to have OpenVPN print to stdout and a log file?

# openvpn --log /var/log/my-openvpn.log
# tail -f /var/log/my-openvpn.log
Except of that, no OpenVPN itself can only log to a single instance,
which can file, syslog or stdout. It is not possible to combine them in
the OpenVPN configuration file.

Oh, and the systemd approach (I just had to):

# journalctl --since today -u openvpn-***@CONFIG_NAME -f