Re: Segfault after HUP

[Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com>]

Bastiaan van Kesteren wrote:
> I'm running a freeradius server on a fresh slackware 11 installation. 
> Everything seems to work OK, except after i've done a 'killall -HUP 
> radiusd'. The server reloads it's configurationfiles, but once the 
> first request comes in after this, it segfaults.

  Yes.  It doesn't handle HUP well.

> Is this a known problem? What can I do to fix this? If you need more
> info, do ask.

  The fix, unfortunately, is either don't HUP, or fairly large code
changes to support HUP.

  2.0 will deal with HUP a fair bit better.  Not perfectly, but it
should no longer crash.

  Alan DeKok.
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