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Christian, thanks for the reply. File permissions were fine, but you pointed me in precisely the right direction. I had the logging info in /etc/swanctl/swanctl.conf. Moving it to /etc/strongswan.d/charon-systemd.conf did the trick.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Christian Salway <christian.salway@naimuri.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 7, 2018 9:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> bls s<br>
<b>Cc:</b> users@lists.strongswan.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [strongSwan] Logging configuration with swanctl.conf</font>
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<div class="">Configuration looks good. This is what I use. Make sure you have saved to the correct file and that you have permission to write to /var/log</div>
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I'm trying to enable strongswan logging in order to submit a question, but I can't seem to get logging set up correctly with swanctl.conf Here's what I added to swanctl.conf. How can I get logging enabled in this configuration? This is strongswan 5.6.3 on latest
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