VPN racoon process log messages

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Chuck Risher Author

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VPN racoon process log messages

Greetings,

I am using a VPN (L2P) connection. About every 10 seconds these messages appear in console

Aug 21 23:41:41 Chucks-MacBook-Pro.local racoon[16839]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Information message).

Aug 21 23:41:41 Chucks-MacBook-Pro.local racoon[16839]: IKEv1 Information-Notice: transmit success. (R-U-THERE? ACK).

Aug 21 23:41:41 Chucks-MacBook-Pro.local racoon[16839]: IKE Packet: receive success. (Information message).

Over days, they add up to gigabytes of log files. Is there a way to turn them off?

Thanks

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)

Posted on Aug 21, 2015 9:56 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 11, 2016 4:20 PM in response to Chuck Risher

You can reduce the verbosity of racoon's logging by editing the "log" statement in its configuration file, which resides at /private/etc/racoon/racoon.conf.

Find the log statement, which might look something like:

#log debug;

Change it to:

log warning;

Then restart your computer.

You will have to be an administrator to edit the racoon config file. The easiest way I know of for doing that is to use the 'sudo' command to launch your text editor. E.g.:

sudo vi /private/etc/racoon/racoon.conf

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