From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 15 23:04:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13871 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 23:04:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from house.key.net.au (house.key.net.au [203.35.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13864 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 23:04:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keith@apcs.com.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by house.key.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08050; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:03:53 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from keith@apcs.com.au) Received: from well.apcs.com.au(203.35.4.19) via SMTP by mailgw.key.net.au, id smtpdQe8039; Tue Feb 16 18:03:43 1999 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990216051818.6588.qmail@nhj.nlc.net.au> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:04:13 +1100 (EST) Reply-To: keith@apcs.com.au Organization: Australia Power Control Systems P/L From: Keith Anderson To: John Saunders Subject: Re: Radius bug ? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi John I may have to hack the source. I have made a compleat ISP accounting software, but it still uses the 'users' file for perm ip's and hourly time limits. Thanks for your help Keith On 16-Feb-99 John Saunders wrote: > In nlc.lists.freebsd-questions you wrote: >> I have just started using the FreeBSD Radius port and found a problem. >> In my system every 15 minute a new 'users' file is created for radius. >> To get (radiusd-cistron-1.5.4.3) to read the new file I have to kill radiusd >> and >> start it up again. >> Is there any way around this problem ? > > Hi Keith, > > As far as I know any radius server derived from the original Livingston > code needs to be restarted to load a new users file. > > I use radwatch on my system which will automatically restart the radius > server if it dies. You may want to try using that (with a shorter delay > before restarting radiusd) so that you may simply "killall radiusd" to > effect the reload. There will be a short downtime, but the radius clients > should retry a number of times anyway. > > When you authenticate from the system password file you hardly ever > need to reload the users file. > > Cheers. > -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ > . | John Saunders - mailto:john@nlc.net.au (EMail) | > ,--_|\ | - http://www.nlc.net.au/ (WWW) | > / Oz \ | - 02-9489-4932 or 04-1822-3814 (Phone) | > \_,--\_/ | NORTHLINK COMMUNICATIONS P/L - Supplying a professional, | > v | and above all friendly, internet connection service. | > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --- "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Keith Anderson Date: 16-Feb-99 Time: 17:58:32 Satelite Service 64K to 2Meg This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message