debug log [was Re: freeradius ippool issue]

[Alan DeKok]

Josip Rodin wrote:
> Oh. These seemingly random expansions have always surprised me. The other
> day I just happened to stumble upon that when writing:
> 
> 	if ((Connect-Info != "NONE") && (Connect-Info < "%Y%m%d")) {
> 
> It would be good if this was documented somewhere - I actually looked in
> the unlang manual page for a way to get a date string, but found nothing.

  doc/variables.txt

> However, the VARIABLES section doesn't mention that those date-format
> strings are actually treated as variables whose names are single letters.
> It does mention the results of regular expression matches, where there
> are eight variables whose names are single numbers, so this looks like
> an omission.

  There are a bunch more single-character expansions that get done.

> I'd write a proper patch, but I haven't looked at the source yet, to see
> which exact set of date formats are supported...?

  See doc/variables.txt

  Adding more "man" pages would be a good idea.  But the "unlang" page
is already pretty big.

  Alan DeKok.