I want to log all the freeradius (v 1.1.3) logs to syslog (syslog-ng). I 've already added this to my syslog-ng.conf :

filter f_radiusd { match ("radiusd"); }; destination radiuslogs { file("var/log/radiusd.log"); }; log { source (src); filter(f_daemon); filter(f_radiusd); destination(radiuslogs);};

And I changed/added this in my radiusd.conf :

logdir = syslog log_destination = syslog

So far so good: when I restart syslog-ng and radiusd, radiusd is logging to /var/log/radiusd.log via syslog. But I also want to have the detail-logs, which are normaly in the raddact directory, working in syslog... Now I see this error in /var/log/radiusd.log :

rlm_detail: Failed to create directory syslog/radacct: No such file or directory

So the rlm_detail part doesn't understands the 'logdir = syslog' option in radiusd.conf I guess? How can I fix this?

We created a pipe/FIFO: mkfifo /var/logfifo -m 600 chown radius /var/logfifo Included the pipe/FIFO in the syslog-ng configuration: source src { ...; pipe('/var/logfifo'); ... } Changed the radiusd.conf detail section: detailfile = /var/logfifo Changed all the occurrances of ${logdir} in radiusd.conf for radwtmp/radutmp/sradutmp if being used: from SOMETHING = ${logdir}/SOMETHING to SOMETHING = ${localstatedir}/log/radius/SOMETHING HTH, Tom -- Tom Whitehouse Department of Computer Science, University of York Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom email: tomw@cs.york.ac.uk | Fax: +44 1904 432767 http://www.cs.york.ac.uk | Voice: +44 1904 434725