Questions about upgrading Freeradius

[Paolo Rotela]

One thing I came across when upgrading from 0.9.3 to 1.0.5 is that the 
"default" allowed characters for sql queries changed. I used [ and ] in my 
usernames, so the results after upgrade whas that my accounting reccords 
where set with the mime-equivalent of [ and ]. I had to add these characters 
as allowed ones in sql.conf

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Pagillo" <linda at n2thenet.com>
To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading Freeradius


> Thanks Dusty, i know you were just kidding with me and that's cool :) I'm
> just having a bad day hehe. So what i would have to do is set up 
> freeradius
> 0.9.3 on a different system and then upgrade it as a test and if 
> everything
> goes well i should do it on my production system?
> ----- 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 12:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading Freeradius
>
>
>> I was just giving you a hard time.  Its a little longer of a process, but
>> it will definately save you a lot of time and more importantly a lot of
>> stress if you do run into issues.
>>
>> BTW - I am in the process of replacing all our radius servers here too.
>> So far, I've had no issues with configurations moving between .9 or .93
>> and 1.0.5.  My setup is pretty simple here though.
>>
>> Good Luck with the upgrade.
>>
>> -Dusty Doris
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Linda Pagillo wrote:
>>
>> > 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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