Thanks Dusty, i know you were just kidding with me and that's cool :) I'm just having a bad day hehe. So what i would have to do is set up freeradius 0.9.3 on a different system and then upgrade it as a test and if everything goes well i should do it on my production system? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dusty Doris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:50 PM Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading Freeradius
> I was just giving you a hard time. Its a little longer of a process, but > it will definately save you a lot of time and more importantly a lot of > stress if you do run into issues. > > BTW - I am in the process of replacing all our radius servers here too. > So far, I've had no issues with configurations moving between .9 or .93 > and 1.0.5. My setup is pretty simple here though. > > Good Luck with the upgrade. > > -Dusty Doris > > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Linda Pagillo wrote: > > > I wish you had my job too because i'm about fed up with this crap.. Anyway, > > thanks for the reply, i'll do it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dusty Doris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:48 AM > > Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading Freeradius > > > > > >> You consider that much work? I wish I had your job! > >> > >> :) > >> > >> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Linda Pagillo wrote: > >> > >>> 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 > >>> > >> - > >> List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > >> > > > > - > > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html