H2O I am using OpenVPN on a Linux OS. In the past when I was using OpenVPN on a Linux OS, on another machine, it I always got a series of messages on the command line during the connection process. Now I am using it also on Linux OS but with a different machine, but I do not get any of these messages while connection. I found them helpful to watch, and I would like to see them still. My configuration file did not change in any significant way. After I enter the command to start the program, it simply returns to a blank prompt where I have to enter my user ID first, and then after pressing Enter I type my password. Has the program changed to disable the connection feedback by design, or is there another problem unrelated to the functionality of Open VPN itself causing this situation? Any informed advice would be welcome. Thanks.
Traffic H2O wrote My configuration file did not change in any significant waydid you change your --verb setting ?
H2O I still do not have this working quite right, but I should add another point about this issue, which I discovered while fiddling around with it. When I use the option "log /path/to/file.log" in the client configuration, all of the information that used to come to the console now goes to the log. This is fine except for one part of the problem, which still occurs, namely: "After I enter the command to start the openvpn program, it simply returns to a blank prompt where I have to enter my user ID first, and then after pressing Enter I type my password." If I do not use the option "log /path/to/file.log" in my configuration file, then the prompt does ask me to enter a UserID and then a password, as it should, but it still does not present the connection data to the console, as it used to do when no logging option was set. Also, I would expect to see a good deal of information during connection since my configuration includes "verb 5" as an option. Something is still awry, causing no connection data to the console when logging is disabled.
