Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 23:28:12 -0600 (CST) From: Jeff Lynch <jeff@mercury.jorsm.com> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cistron radius Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980402232633.6059A-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> In-Reply-To: <35244310.EA8E1638@scitec.com.au>
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On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, John Saunders wrote:
> 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)".
^^^^^^^
Yes. This works very well.
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