On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 03:18:06PM +0100, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote: > This negates problems caused by installing over the top of a > previous installation, which IMHO is always an extremely bad > idea with any unpackaged software.
...or even packaged software. FWIW, I put all freeradius config in /srv/radius, and then /etc/default/freeradius sets the daemon option '-d /srv/radius'. Even with Debian's pretty good system of not overwriting config files, I want to a) guarantee that my config never gets touched, and b) not have to be asked about changed config files at package upgrade time. Moving my config to a different location solves that entirely. It also means that I have a reference raddb in the standard location, so I can refer to it. My config is mostly stripped of comments for brevity (and my sanity). The reference config has them all in. I can't personally see why anyone would 'make install' on top of a working config on a server and trust the install to not touch any local changes. Even if I'm 99.99% sure it won't, I'd be too worried to do it when there's an easy alternative. But I guess some are just more adventurous than me! :) Cheers, Matthew -- Matthew Newton, Ph.D. <m...@le.ac.uk> Systems Specialist, Infrastructure Services, I.T. Services, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom For IT help contact helpdesk extn. 2253, <ith...@le.ac.uk> - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
