Re: 2.0-beta6: "Error: cannot open" with log-append

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, James Yonan wrote:

> Mathias Sundman <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> > When I start openvpn as a service on WinXP I get the following in my
> > log-file:
> >
> > Sun Jun 27 22:34:37 2004 Error: cannot open --log file: c:\program
> > files\openvpn\log\ljustero.log: The process cannot access the file because
> > it is being used by another process.   (errno=32)
> > Sun Jun 27 22:34:37 2004 Exiting
>
> Using --log or --log-append in a service is sort of redundant because the
> service is already redirecting stdout/stderr to a log file before it starts
> the openvpn.exe process.
>
> Maybe what's happening is that the service wrapper (openvpnserv.exe) is
> already opening ljustero.log and setting stdout/stderr to point to it,
> executing openvpn.exe, and then openvpn.exe is trying to open the same file
> that's already open.

Yes, that was exactly what happend.


> If you want to append to the log file from a service, it would be better to
> change the registry setting that controls that (see install notes) rather than
> putting --log-append into the config file.

Ahh, sorry, I missed that one. Perhaps a note about not using --log and 
--log-append together with the service-wrapper would be good to have in 
the Man page for those parameters.

Thanks for your help anyway, now it works as I wanted it.

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