openvpn not creating any log

tony

I'm running openvpn-2.1.4-1.el5 as a client on a centos5.8 machine, command line only. The program works fine and connects to an internet based vpn privacy service it but doesn't create any log anywhere. How do I get the program to log? I've done searches on the machine but it found nothing. I looked at the default client.config file (that came with the install) but there was nothing in there about log file location, only verbosity.

wininstaller

I don't have CentOS, however in most *nix packages you can find the following inside the config examples:

# By default, log messages will go to the syslog
# Use log or log-append to override this default.
# "log" will truncate the log file on OpenVPN startup,
# while "log-append" will append to it.
;log             openvpn.log
;log-append  openvpn.log

Try to add either line in your server.conf if you don't want to use syslog.