-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24/04/10 06:09, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 04/23/2010 01:36:56 AM, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: >> Hi All, >> I have been patching NetworkManager-openvpn for some time now, trying >> to >> enable some functionality, which a lot of >> people use. >> The main problem we have been facing for some time now, is that >> openvpn >> throws error messages only in the logs, >> due to which any form of graphical output for us, is only possible by >> screen >> scraping these logs, which is a real pain. >> >> I am thinking if we can make openvpn show these messages on the >> administrative interface or something similar so that programatically >> it >> would become easier to parse them and show them graphical to the >> user. > > Wny not configure your syslog program to pipe log messages straight > into some program you write that delivers the messages where ever you > want them? Or use UDP, TCP or RELP instead of a pipe. > > Or is the problem that MS Windows does not support --syslog? >
NetworkManager-openvpn is most known on the Linux platform, and might maybe be used on other platforms like Solaris or *BSD. Piping syslog messages to a process will also be non-trivial, as you need to support a broad setup of distributions, which might use different syslog implementations with different config syntaxes. Using the management interface would be the proper solution, IMHO. kind regards, David Sommerseth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvSwfgACgkQDC186MBRfrpOIwCfWv3ByQQ5wH7DFs2jqg+jxwfs bzUAn3YGpYOb1r2MtcreuUqKd5+hZqZH =YRd6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
