Questions about upgrading Freeradius

[Linda Pagillo]

Thanks for your reply. Is it really this much work to do a simple upgrade?
Is there a shortcut?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dusty Doris" <freeradius at mail.doris.cc>
To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading Freeradius


> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Linda Pagillo wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone:
> >
> > I have been using Freeradius v.0.9.3 for over a year and i wish to
> > upgrade to the latest version. Can anyone give me detailed instructions
> > on how to do this? I use Freeradius in a prodcution enviroment and i
> > can't afford to mess it up. I'm running Linux RedHat 9. Do i just do a
> > ./configure, make and make install like i did the first time? If yes,
> > won't that overwrite all of my current config files? Thanks!
> >
>
> First, I would recommend setting up a lab machine (you can do it on your
> workstation if you need to) to test that your configs work correctly with
> the new version.  Its probably backward compatible, but I wouldn't just
> blindly upgrade on production and hope for the best.
>
> Then you could compile freeradius with --prefix.  This will put all
> configurations, binaries, etc.. into a certain directory.  For example:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freeradius1.0.5
> make
> make install
>
> When that's done, cd to /usr/local/freeradius1.0.5/etc/raddb and change
> your files to make it work like it did in testing.  Shutdown the current
> radius version and start up the new one with
> /usr/local/freeradius1.0.5/sbin/radiusd -X and see if its working.  If so,
> modify your startup scripts to point to the new version instead of the
> old.
>
>
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