Questions about upgrading Freeradius

[Linda Pagillo]

I wish you had my job too because i'm about fed up with this crap.. Anyway,
thanks for the reply, i'll do it.
----- 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 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading Freeradius


> You consider that much work?  I wish I had your job!
>
> :)
>
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Linda Pagillo wrote:
>
> > 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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