Josip Rodin wrote: > With regard to log rotation, that's actually contrary to what it should do :) > The HUP not only reopens log files, but it also reopens the configuration. > But if you have a configuration file that the unprivileged FR user can't > read, esp. if it's radiusd.conf :) the reload will fail, and it also won't > be able to reopen log files.
The fix there is to *not* reload the config if it's done an suid. > IOW for the purpose of log rotation, we didn't need HUP because it's too > invasive for that purpose. But a configuration reload in general is useful > and HUP seems like the most appropriate method. Another fix would be to add a "radmin" command to re-open just the log files. Either patch is small, and both would be useful. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
