Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 12:01:52 +1000 From: John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au> To: Paul Sandys <myj@nyct.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cistron radius Message-ID: <35244310.EA8E1638@scitec.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980402173030.470A-100000@bsd3.nyct.net>
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Paul Sandys wrote:
> I had the same problem. From what I've seen, the acct.c is the problem. It
> uses lseek when it deletes users from radutmp file. Here's a snip of the
> code:
>
> if (lseek(fd, -sizeof(u), SEEK_CUR) < 0) {
> log(L_ERR, "Accounting: negative lseek!\n");
> lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
> }
>
> On FreeBSD -sizeof(u) generates 32-bit result, but FreeBSD lseek expects
> 64-bit offset. Thats why your file grows to (4096MB - 100 bytes). I
> changed all -sizeof(u) arguments to -100, and everything seems to be
> running fine now for 3 weeks.
Maybe a safer way to code that would be "-(off_t)sizeof(u)".
Cheers.
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