William Bulley wrote:

About twenty months ago, a commit to src/main/modules.c occurred with the following comment:

Allow administrators to force_check_config

There is a check inside find_module_instance() in that file for a value pair of that name with a value of "yes":

cp = cf_pair_find(cs, "force_check_config"); if (cp) value = cf_pair_value(cp); if (value && (strcmp(value, "yes") == 0)) goto print_inst; cf_log_module(cs, "Skipping instantiation of %s", instname);

The use of force_check_config doesn't seem to be documented anywhere.

There's a lot of that, unfortunately.

The only hits on Google are from the above commit. I have seached back three years on this list for the string force_check_config to no avail. I assume I need to have a force_check_config value pair with a value of "yes" somewhere in the request, but I don't know how to make that happen. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.

Uh... let me see if I can figure out what it's supposed to do. :( I *think* it's something you can add to a module configuration to force it to instantiate itself. Normally, when "radiusd -C" is used, the SQL module is skipped, because checking the config doesn't mean opening 50 sockets to the SQL server. Adding "force_check_config=yes" will make modules like SQL instantiate themselves, including opening 50 sockets to the SQL server. Alan DeKok.