02-07-2018 07:45:56.718 -0500 WARN FileClassifierManager - The file '/var/log/openvpn.log' is invalid. Reason: binary
02-07-2018 07:45:56.718 -0500 INFO TailReader - Ignoring file '/var/log/openvpn.log' due to: binary
Well there we go, never occurred to check logs on the forwarder itself. So now I have a new mystery. The file is definitely not a binary.
[2.4.2-RELEASE][root@pvlpfs01.local]/var/log: file openvpn.log
openvpn.log: ASCII text
[2.4.2-RELEASE][root@pvlpfs01.local]/var/log: hexdump -C openvpn.log | less
00000000 4a 61 6e 20 32 34 20 32 33 3a 33 32 3a 32 31 20 |Jan 24 23:32:21 |
00000010 70 76 6c 70 66 73 30 31 20 6f 70 65 6e 76 70 6e |pvlpfs01 openvpn|
00000020 5b 32 32 38 38 31 5d 3a 20 65 76 65 6e 74 5f 77 |[22881]: event_w|
the /// doesn't hurt anything, just defines the path all the way from root. That was added to see if it made a difference with the problem I was having.
In any case im going to add a stanza in props.conf
[openvpn]
NO_BINARY_CHECK = true
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