Segfaulting with rlm_perl

[Alan DeKok]

Norman Elton wrote:
> Oh, definitely. We'd do that as a failsafe anyway. My main question is
> whether this is failing by design?

  The intention is to *not* crash.

  But... FreeRADIUS is dependent on the libraries it uses.  If they
misbehave, then there's little we can do.

> If so, is there a best practice to
> avoid the crash (or something like monit to recover from a crash)? And,
> if not, is it a resolvable bug?

  Write Perl scripts that work, or track down exactly *why* it's crashing.

  The server runs as one process with multiple threads.  So a crash
takes down the entire server.

  Alan DeKok.