That is exactly what I want to do! I just started using subversion with RANCID and am not very knowledgeable about svn. How can I get a 'diff' spread around like that? I am thinking about what you have said and it could be completely wrong, 1. A change is commited on a watched file like 'huntgroups.' 2. A local script diffs it against a remote subversion repo copy (or a local copy?) via a cron job 3. The diff gets checked in to svn. 4. The scripts on the other RADIUS servers then notice the diff in the repo copy and apply it to their own files? Sounds like I need to build up my script writing skills... Regards, -Charles ------------ Master timed out! Holding election... I am declaring myself the master! -----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces+crt=thig.com@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+crt=thig.com@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 3:20 PM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: sync hungroups, clients files, users across multiple servers Hi,

Greets!

What is a good way or considered best practice for folks to sync changes to critical files in use by radius like huntgroups and clients.conf and users across multiple RADIUS servers. I am not using MySQL backend, but rather relaying requests for auth off to PAM which checks against a samba/NT-Domain, thus the user account existing locally on the server. With several servers it becomes a PIA and can lead to misconfiguration errors due to human data entry when you have to enter everything into each server.

Does anyone want to share a script they have written to do this?

you could use rsync, http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ or subversion, http://subversion.tigris.org/ and actually keep your configurations all held on such a central repository. you can then actually update the configuration from any one of your servers and get them all to autometically get the latest version... be that with a frequent cronjob that checks for changes (and if there have been any, download them!) or from a forced update. this way you also have a centralised way of seeing what changed, when and who by. alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This email including any attachments, contains confidential information belonging to the sender. It may also be privileged or otherwise protected by work product immunity or other legal rules. This information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this emailed information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify us by reply email of the error and then delete this email immediately.