---- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:17:40 -0400 > "Alan DeKok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok. The issue there is that the log file is probably opened *after* > > stdin, stdout, and stderr are closed. So /dev/stderr is a "magic" > > file, and doesn't exist any more once stderr is closed. > > It looks like that indeed. > > > Why not just use "radiusd -X", and log to stdout? What's so magic > > about stderr? > > There's nothing magic to stderr, I tried stdout but that didn't work, > so I tried stderr which didn't work either. I tried "-x" and that works, > but that also logs passwords in cleartext. But apparently the options > > log_file = /dev/stderr > log_auth = yes > > or, like the doc says > > logdir = stdout > > don't work properly when stdout or stderr is used as log output. And the > deprecated -lstderr or -lstdout don't work either. I tried to run > radiusd as root, but the same thing happens (I think that confirms your > statement that the logfile is opened after stderr had closed). When I > write the logs to a file everything is OK. I'm not a freeradius > specialist but it seems to me that this phenomena is a bug ;-) > > Richard. > > -- > ___________________________________________________________________ > Recursion: see recursion > > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Richard Lucassen, Utrecht, Linux 2.4.20 RedHat 7.2 | > | The Netherlands i686/1200MHz/768MB | > | Public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~pe1bbf/pubkey.asc | > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > >
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