> From: Nicolas Baradakis > Sent: Wednesday, 1 October 2003 7:37 PM > Paul Hampson wrote: > > > > From: Nick Davis > > > Sent: Wednesday, 1 October 2003 7:48 AM
> > > One thing to note, when installing the deb files with dpkg -i, it > > > will try to start the freeradius daemon. That failed because all > > > of the modules that I removed were still defined in radius.conf. > > Interesting point... I might have to go fix it so that failing to > > start the server doesn't cause installation failure... To my mind > > server start failure is probably not so bad 'cause I suspect an > > unconfigured RADIUS server would not be a pleasant thing to have > > running. > As an other possibility you might call check-radiusd-config in the > debian init.d script before starting the serveur. The init.d script > of Apache (for example) do that. > It could be wise to call check-radiusd-config too before doing a > reload. If radiusd.conf is broken we don't stop a already running > server. An excellent idea. Although I'll hold off until your patch comes through. > Looking at the source of check-radiusd-config I think it doesn't > proceed properly, or to be more accurate, it doesn't do what I expect > it to do. It should _only_ test the config, but it launch the whole > server on port 32768 (including instantiating modules, opening db > connexions, etc.) and kill it 2 sec later. Well, that's certainly a way of checking the config syntax. > I think FreeRADIUS should provide a -t option (like Apache) to test > its configuration file. It's a trivial thing to do. I'm going to do it > very soon (so it may go in 0.9.2) and post a patch on the -devel > mailing list. Sounds good. -- Paul "TBBle" Hampson Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a sidewalk near Portland State University someone wrote `Trust Jesus', and someone else wrote `But Cut the Cards'. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
