Hi, On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 03:12:01PM +0100, Bo Berglund wrote: > >> $ openvpn --version > >> OpenVPN 2.4.12 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] > >> [PKCS11] > >Ah, yes. So that's a bit of an antique :-) > > $ apt policy openvpn > openvpn: > Installed: 2.4.12-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 > Candidate: 2.4.12-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 > > Cannot get anything newer...
Yeah, that's Ubuntu/Debian policy. Never ugprade to a newer train of
software than "what was there when shipping" - we missed 20.04 deadline
by a wide margin (2.5.0 was released in October 2020), so they took 2.4.x
and at least upgraded that to "the latest version".
22.04 has 2.6.x
[..]
> >Date: Sat Jun 20 19:23:03 2020 +0200
> >
> > Change timestamps in file-based logging to ISO 8601 time format.
> >
>
> Thanks for the clarification!
> That is exactly what I need...
>
> Can I upgrade the apt installed openvpn to 2.5 even though it is not offered
> by
> the apt system?
I know that some of my co-maintainers do build OpenVPN packages for
debian/ubuntu distros, but this is not my speciality, so I can't give
specific advice. It can, but no idea on the "how".
> NOTE
> ----
> On the *other* Ubuntu server running openvpn, which is Ubuntu Server 22.04.3
> LTS
> (was upgraded back in October) the version is:
>
> $ apt policy openvpn
> openvpn:
> Installed: 2.5.9-0ubuntu0.22.04.2
> Candidate: 2.5.9-0ubuntu0.22.04.2
>
>
> it shows this using the command suggested earlier:
>
> $ openvpn --show-gateway
> 2024-02-05 07:41:09 ROUTE_GATEWAY 10.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 IFACE=eth0
> HWADDR=00:50:56:9e:c6:86
So, ISO timestamp :-)
> But the logs do not show any timestamp at all...
> A typical line:
> HasanA_AGI/83.**.**.105:59902 [Hasan****] Inactivity timeout (--ping-restart),
> restarting
>
> So here the server logs are totally without timestamps and there is nothing in
> the /lib/systemd/system/openvpn-server@.service file about logging either.
>
> EXITING....
> I think I will drop this altogether, the servers are doing their thing
> anyway...
Not sure why this is so. I bet it's still systemd.
gert
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"If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you
feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted
it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de
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