FreeRADIUS 2.1.10 regression in logging behaviour

[Alan Buxey]

Hi,

>   Before, it wouldn't re-open the file, even if you did HUP it.  I'm not
> sure why you thought it was rotating the log files before... that just
> didn't work.  It opened the log file when the server started, and never
> touched it again after that.

thats not the behaviour we saw - eg

-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  3152191 Oct 23 04:08 radius.log.36
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  2229770 Oct 24 04:09 radius.log.35
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  2589987 Oct 25 04:09 radius.log.34
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  4089171 Oct 26 04:11 radius.log.33
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  4902736 Oct 27 04:10 radius.log.32
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  4618571 Oct 28 04:07 radius.log.31
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  4221713 Oct 29 04:09 radius.log.30
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  3737681 Oct 30 04:09 radius.log.29
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  2328756 Oct 31 04:09 radius.log.28
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  2060983 Nov  1 04:09 radius.log.27
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  3395059 Nov  2 04:10 radius.log.26
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  4934398 Nov  3 04:11 radius.log.25
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  3975604 Nov  4 04:09 radius.log.24
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  3675166 Nov  5 04:09 radius.log.23
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  3220017 Nov  6 04:09 radius.log.22
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  2278344 Nov  7 04:09 radius.log.21
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  1942965 Nov  8 04:10 radius.log.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  3298715 Nov  9 04:11 radius.log.19
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  3554339 Nov 10 04:11 radius.log.18
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  3755024 Nov 11 04:09 radius.log.17
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  3882586 Nov 12 04:09 radius.log.16
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  3185965 Nov 13 04:08 radius.log.15
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  1831972 Nov 14 04:08 radius.log.14
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  1894329 Nov 15 04:10 radius.log.13
-rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd  3620635 Nov 16 04:10 radius.log.12

as you can see, each log file was created and used...and we RARELY restart
the server. we certainly dont or didnt HUP it.

alan