Thanks for your reply. Is it really this much work to do a simple upgrade? Is there a shortcut? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dusty Doris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:58 AM Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading Freeradius
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Linda Pagillo wrote: > > > Hi everyone: > > > > I have been using Freeradius v.0.9.3 for over a year and i wish to > > upgrade to the latest version. Can anyone give me detailed instructions > > on how to do this? I use Freeradius in a prodcution enviroment and i > > can't afford to mess it up. I'm running Linux RedHat 9. Do i just do a > > ./configure, make and make install like i did the first time? If yes, > > won't that overwrite all of my current config files? Thanks! > > > > First, I would recommend setting up a lab machine (you can do it on your > workstation if you need to) to test that your configs work correctly with > the new version. Its probably backward compatible, but I wouldn't just > blindly upgrade on production and hope for the best. > > Then you could compile freeradius with --prefix. This will put all > configurations, binaries, etc.. into a certain directory. For example: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freeradius1.0.5 > make > make install > > When that's done, cd to /usr/local/freeradius1.0.5/etc/raddb and change > your files to make it work like it did in testing. Shutdown the current > radius version and start up the new one with > /usr/local/freeradius1.0.5/sbin/radiusd -X and see if its working. If so, > modify your startup scripts to point to the new version instead of the > old. > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
