Alan Buxey wrote:

when using eg linelog module, FreeRADIUS makes a file - anyone interested in ability for the daemon to make a different TYPE of file - ie a named pipe rather than a plain file?

$ man mknod ? The main issue with a named pipe is that if it ever blocks, the server blocks, too. See any number of messages on this list asking why the RADIUS server stops responding when the SQL server is down... If the writes to the named pipe are non-blocking, that's better. But it means that data will be lost when the reader of the pipe disappears. Alan DeKok.