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August 15, 2019 14:33
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This is logrotate configuration for OpenVPN. It prevents you from huge OpenVPN log files. `copytruncate` option here is very important - OpenVPN doesn't want to close the logfile it's writing to, so this file is automatically truncated after copying its contents.
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| /var/log/openvpn.log { | |
| daily | |
| rotate 12 | |
| compress | |
| copytruncate | |
| delaycompress | |
| missingok | |
| notifempty | |
| } |
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Instead of copytruncate, tell OpenVPN to log to syslog and use syslog's facilities to redirect logging to separate files. Then you won't need to dance around deficiencies of (very basic) internal OpenVPN's logging.
Even better would be to leave openvpn logging to console and tell init daemon to capture it to syslog.
This way you won't miss the scripts output as well.