We have side stepped this problem by using MySQL for everything that could 
change, instead of the local files. When you add/remove users etc. from the 
database, there is no need to restart radiusd.

Not sure if that helps you, but that is one way around that problem.

Nick

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 09:47, Dickon Newman wrote:
> Again, I've tried to search the archives without much luck.
>
> I have multiple radius boxes (FreeBSD), and currently use rsync to update
> the users file (and others).  However, I need to restart radiusd to notice
> the changes in the files.  I can make a script that sends a kill -9
> locally, but what about remotely?  Root cannot ssh, and normal users cannot
> send a kill -9 to a root process?
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> I understand that proxying may be a better approach, however, I have to
> work within certain constraints :-/
>
> Dickon...

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