Empty log for Global stats and time conencted error

jimbo

Hello,

I activated the "openvpn-status.log" with "verb 5" in my config file. OpenVPN 2.2.1

First : the openvpn status log file is empty concerning the "GLOBAL STATS" :

cat openvpn-status.log
OpenVPN CLIENT LIST
Updated,Wed Feb  1 14:29:24 2012
Common Name,Real Address,Bytes Received,Bytes Sent,Connected Since
user1,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:64524,2289046,21417409,Wed Feb  1 10:28:01 2012
user2,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:64524,2289046,21417409,Wed Feb  1 10:28:01 2012
user3,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:64524,2289046,21417409,Wed Feb  1 10:28:01 2012
ROUTING TABLE
Virtual Address,Common Name,Real Address,Last Ref
xx.xx.xx.xx,user1,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:64524,Wed Feb  1 14:28:55 2012
xx.xx.xx.xx,user2,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:64524,Wed Feb  1 14:28:55 2012
xx.xx.xx.xx,user3,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:64524,Wed Feb  1 14:28:55 2012
GLOBAL STATS
Max bcast/mcast queue length,0
END

Secondly :

If a user is disconnected and reconnect after 10min for example, the "Connected Since" field don't show the new connection time session.

Thanks

janjust

the GLOBAL STATS currently only contains info about multicast/broadcast buffers; if you're not seeing that kind of network traffic then the global stats will remain empty.

the status file is rewritten every N seconds (where N is the parameter you specified in the config file); it can take some time before a client entry is updated and if the client was never fully de-registered it might show up with the original connection time again.