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Bug 680038

Summary: net-vpn/openvpn should specify argument for --daemon
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Sven Wegener <swegener>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Patrick McLean <chutzpah>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: williamh
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: openvpn-daemon-svcname.patch

Description Sven Wegener gentoo-dev 2019-03-11 14:03:55 UTC
Created attachment 568578 [details, diff]
openvpn-daemon-svcname.patch

When running multiple OpenVPN instances by symlinking the OpenRC init script all of them log with the openvpn program identifier, making it hard to distinguish them.

OpenVPN supports an argument for --daemon, which will override the identifier used for logging.