Location of freeradius log file

Deepak d88pak at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 08:38:38 CEST 2009


On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:25 AM, John Dennis<jdennis at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/13/2009 11:35 AM, Deepak wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have following installed.
>>
>> ===============
>> OS: CentOS 5.3
>> freeradius 2.1.6 (rpm version)
>> daloradius 0.9-8
>> mysql 5.0.45
>> ===============
>>
>> When I try to check the radius log file from daloradius interface, it
>> give me following error:
>> ========
>> error reading log file:
>>
>> looked for log file in /var/log/freeradius/radius.log and
>> /usr/local/var/log/radius/radius.log but couldn't find it.
>> if you know where your freeradius log file is located, set it's
>> location in /zradius/rep-logs-radius.php
>> ========
>>  I tried to look for this file but couldn't locate it. There is no
>> "freeradius" directory in  "/var/log"
>>
>> Where do freeradius keep the log file?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
> The default log location as defined by the configure.in script is
> logdir='${localstatedir}/log/radius'
>
> On most systems localstatedir is /var thus the default log location is
> /var/log/radius.
>
> On rpm based systems this can be deduced by looking at the file list
> belonging to an rpm, for example:
>
> $ rpm -ql freeradius | grep log
> /etc/logrotate.d/radiusd
> /etc/raddb/modules/detail.log
> /etc/raddb/modules/linelog
> /etc/raddb/modules/logintime
> /etc/raddb/modules/sql_log
> /etc/raddb/modules/sqlcounter_expire_on_login
> /usr/lib/freeradius/rlm_acctlog-2.1.6.so
> /usr/lib/freeradius/rlm_acctlog.so
> /usr/lib/freeradius/rlm_linelog-2.1.6.so
> /usr/lib/freeradius/rlm_linelog.so
> /usr/lib/freeradius/rlm_logintime-2.1.6.so
> /usr/lib/freeradius/rlm_logintime.so
> /usr/lib/freeradius/rlm_sql_log-2.1.6.so
> /usr/lib/freeradius/rlm_sql_log.so
> /usr/share/man/man5/rlm_sql_log.5.gz
> /var/log/radius
> /var/log/radius/radacct
> /var/log/radius/radius.log
> /var/log/radius/radutmp
>
> here you can see the log directory is /var/log/radius. But there is another
> hint, the freeradius package included a logrotate file in
> /etc/logrotate.d/radiusd. logrotate is responsible for rotating log files
> and the /etc/logrotate.d/radiusd is the configuration file specific to the
> radiusd service. Looking at that config file will show you the path of every
> radius log file.
>
>
>
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Thanks! found it in /var/log/radius



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