huge client log files

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guitms4
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huge client log files

Post by guitms4 » Wed Feb 11, 2015 9:43 pm

SO we have been testing OpenVPN on two users before pulling the plug and buying the license to have more users on it. For one of the users it is working great. The other user it only works for a day or two and then the client log file gets so huge it won't work anymore. This last time the log file got up to 8.5GB which is insane. Too large to have them send me. I wiped out the log file and had them use OpenVPN for 30 minutes only then stop and send me the file. After 30 minutes it was still only 14KB and nothing unusual in the log. I am not sure what is happening here. Has anyone else seen this or know what could be causing it?

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Re: huge client log files

Post by maikcat » Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:43 am

use log instead of log-append on your client config.

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Re: huge client log files

Post by ka77 » Thu Sep 17, 2015 6:19 am

Hi,

'I wiped out the log file' you said: how do you delete logs using ssh+terminal: where are these operation-logs put in!?

Thanks,
Karl

PS: did you try 'cronjob' to empty log-files daily/weekly?

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