accounting and rlm_cache

[Alan DeKok]

On Nov 7, 2017, at 2:24 PM, Dmitry Yashin via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> Hi, I have a bug in the network and sometimes the stop pack comes before
> updates. to fix this i write some like this
...
> but this not work , in debug mode i see

  Can you PLEASE NOT USE "radiusd -Xx".

  Honestly, what is with this?  Are the suddenly hundreds of third-party guides recommending this?

  Why can people not just read the FREERADIUS DOCUMENTATION, and follow it?

  Why are half of the posts to this list suddenly using "-Xx", after 20 years of "-X" being good enough?

  And what's with the double-spacing?

> Tue Nov  7 21:51:00 2017 : Debug: (222) cache: Mutex acquired
> 
> Tue Nov  7 21:51:00 2017 : Debug: (222) cache: No cache entry found for
> "cc815c1b8cb89841330796a5f48bfa12"
> 
> Tue Nov  7 21:51:00 2017 : Debug: (222) cache: Mutex released
> 
> Tue Nov  7 21:51:00 2017 : Debug: (222)       modsingle[accounting]:
> returned from cache (rlm_cache)
> 
> Tue Nov  7 21:51:00 2017 : Debug: (222)       [cache] = notfound
> 
> Tue Nov  7 21:51:00 2017 : Debug: (222)     } # if (Acct-Status-Type ==
> Interim-Update)  = notfound
> 
> Tue Nov  7 21:51:00 2017 : Debug: (222)   } # accounting = notfound
> 
> Tue Nov  7 21:51:00 2017 : Debug: (222) Not sending reply to client.
> 
> Tue Nov  7 21:51:00 2017 : Debug: (222) Finished request
> 
> 
> why not work if (notfound) in accounting ?

  Because the server didn't do anything with the accounting packet.  It wasn't stored in the cache, and it wasn't stored anywhere else.

  You can use module fail-over to control this behaviour:


  if (Acct-Status-Type == Interim-Update) {
    update control {
      Cache-Status-Only = 'yes'
    }
    cache {
	notfound = 1
    }
   ... everything else...

  That should work.

  And please, READ THE DOCUMENTATION FOR HOW TO USE DEBUG MODE.

  It's not hard.  Reading all of the extra crap in "-Xx" is getting annoying.  If this keeps up, I'm going to just start ignoring EVERY POST which uses the wrong format.

  Alan DeKok.