RE: debug log [was Re: freeradius ippool issue] [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-07-20 Thread Ranner, Frank MR
UNCLASSIFIED > -Original Message- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] eradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Josip Rodin > Sent: Friday, 18 July 2008 23:19 > To: FreeRadius users mailing list > Subject: Re: debug log [was Re: freeradiu

Re: debug log [was Re: freeradius ippool issue]

2008-07-18 Thread Alan DeKok
Josip Rodin wrote: > OK, yes, but this particular situation is a bit strange... the variables.txt > file says: Yes... > Which information is authoritative - should we use and depend on this, > or not? The expansions documented in doc/variables.txt are historical, but still work. This is wha

Re: debug log [was Re: freeradius ippool issue]

2008-07-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:25:50PM +0200, Alan DeKok wrote: > > It would be good if this was documented somewhere - I actually looked in > > the unlang manual page for a way to get a date string, but found nothing. > > doc/variables.txt > > > However, the VARIABLES section doesn't mention that

Re: debug log [was Re: freeradius ippool issue]

2008-07-18 Thread Alan DeKok
Josip Rodin wrote: > Oh. These seemingly random expansions have always surprised me. The other > day I just happened to stumble upon that when writing: > > if ((Connect-Info != "NONE") && (Connect-Info < "%Y%m%d")) { > > It would be good if this was documented somewhere - I actually looked

Re: debug log [was Re: freeradius ippool issue]

2008-07-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 01:46:30PM +0200, Alan DeKok wrote: > > BTW, while we're on the topic - Navis RADIUS has the option of having log > > files be automatically switched based on timestamps. In other words, if you > > set a log file to be 'TimeFile', and set attributes 'FormatTimestamp=TRUE', >

Re: debug log [was Re: freeradius ippool issue]

2008-07-18 Thread Alan DeKok
Josip Rodin wrote: > Yeah. At least you can try to streamline the debugging process, so that > the instructions become very easy :) It's more straightforward to tell people > "send us your log file which is right over there" than to tell them "stop > the server, start it manually with -X, copy&past

Re: debug log [was Re: freeradius ippool issue]

2008-07-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:16:08PM +0200, Alan DeKok wrote: > Josip Rodin wrote: > > It looks to me that it would be a good idea to have a default > > /var/log/freeradius/debug.log where the daemon would write the output > > normally found with -X. Plus with timestamps. > > That is very, very, e

Re: debug log [was Re: freeradius ippool issue]

2008-07-18 Thread Alan DeKok
Josip Rodin wrote: > It looks to me that it would be a good idea to have a default > /var/log/freeradius/debug.log where the daemon would write the output > normally found with -X. Plus with timestamps. That is very, very, expensive, and will slow the server down a lot. But yes, the idea is good

debug log [was Re: freeradius ippool issue]

2008-07-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:30:31PM +0200, Alan DeKok wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > :) yes that's what it was thank you for your "help". I'm sorry you had a > > bad day my friend. > > You have tried very hard to make it a bad day. > > It's incredibly frustrating to help people who figh