Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:03:58 +0100 From: Christophe Prevotaux <chris@hexanet.fr> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Radius bug ? Message-ID: <36C9347E.5D23EEE5@hexanet.fr> References: <XFMail.990216180413.keith@apcs.com.au>
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Keith Anderson wrote: > > Hi John > > I may have to hack the source. > I have made a compleat ISP accounting software, but it still uses the 'users' > file for perm ip's and hourly time limits. > > Thanks for your help > > Keith > > On 16-Feb-99 John Saunders wrote: > > In nlc.lists.freebsd-questions you wrote: > >> I have just started using the FreeBSD Radius port and found a problem. > >> In my system every 15 minute a new 'users' file is created for radius. > >> To get (radiusd-cistron-1.5.4.3) to read the new file I have to kill radiusd > >> and > >> start it up again. > >> Is there any way around this problem ? > > > > Hi Keith, > > > > As far as I know any radius server derived from the original Livingston > > code needs to be restarted to load a new users file. > > > > I use radwatch on my system which will automatically restart the radius > > server if it dies. You may want to try using that (with a shorter delay > > before restarting radiusd) so that you may simply "killall radiusd" to > > effect the reload. There will be a short downtime, but the radius clients > > should retry a number of times anyway. > > > > When you authenticate from the system password file you hardly ever > > need to reload the users file. > > no that is not true with the livingston radiusd, there is a buildbm tools to build the users.db and that is all. any users added will be taken into account right away if they have added to the user.db file -- =================================================================== Christophe Prevotaux Email: chris@hexanet.fr HEXANET SARL URL: http://www.hexanet.fr/ Z.A Farman Sud Tel: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 05 9 rue Roland Coffignot Fax: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 06 BP415 51689 Reims Cedex 2 Use a real OS, use UNIX FRANCE FreeBSD =================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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