Re: Core 89 bug?

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Let me ping Alex about this...

It should be fine that the file is owned by root. It just has to be
readable by collectd and writeable by openvpn itself. The status of the
RW connections is checked over the telnet management interface of the
openvpn daemon.

-Michael

On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 03:13 -0500, Rod Rodolico wrote:
> I was able to track it down to /var/run/ovpnserver.log having ownership
> root:root, but permissions 600, for some reason. I did the update on
> another router and it appears to have permissions set to 644, which is
> more logical since apache needs to be able to read it.
> 
> My office router is set to always go into testing branch, so maybe
> something happened there. I think I'll rebuild the router from scratch,
> but if anyone else reports something similar, have them look at the
> ownership of /var/run/ovpnserver.log.
> 
> Rod
> 
> On 04/21/2015 11:50 PM, Rod Rodolico wrote:
> > I have Core 89 installed on my router and just noticed something. When I
> > vpn in (OpenVPN, Road Warrior), it does not show up on the vpn list; the
> > entry on the web interface shows the user as disconnected.
> > 
> > Looking at /var/log/ovpnserver.log shows nothing also.
> > 
> > However, I am connected; I can ping a machine on the LAN.
> > 
> > I rebooted the firewall just to make sure I did not do anything weird,
> > but still no changes.
> > 
> > I see the login in /var/log/messages, and /var/log/ovpnserver.log shows
> > it was updated at the correct time, just no entries.
> > 
> > I have saved copies of the logs in question and have been able to
> > recreate the scenario.
> > 
> > Rod
> > 
> 

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