Yes. MySQL has wait_timeout set to 8 hours. See last option: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/instance-manager-command-options.html Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP Dana 19/7/2007, "thomas@buddybase.at" <thomas@buddybase.at> piše:

Hello FR users,

I am running FreeRadius 1.1.3 together with MySQL 5.0.27 I use huntgroups to allow access to specific devices only to certain users belonging to a certain group (I use huntgroups since "I" didnt find a way to do it via MySQL) I have the following issue: When for a longer period (e.g. over night) no one logs into one of the devices (so the radius server sits idle), it happens that the first time in the morning someone tries to login he fails because FR rejects the Request with "invalid user" - only after 3 or 4 tries the login-attempt is successfull The reason seems to be, that after such a "long" dormant period, when the first RADIUS-request(s) arrive, FR has to re-connect to the MySQL DB to query the user's group-membership Since this re-connect takes "too long" the query returns "Not found" and the user is rejected as "unknown"

Here is what you see in the radius.log file: Tue Jul 17 08:05:16 2007 : Info: rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server for #9 Tue Jul 17 08:05:16 2007 : Error: rlm_sql (sql): failed after re-connect Tue Jul 17 08:05:16 2007 : Auth: No huntgroup access: [xxx] (from client ATWRE22e7601 port 1 cli 10.0.0.31) Tue Jul 17 08:05:16 2007 : Auth: Invalid user: [xxx] (from client ATWRE22e7601 port 1 cli 10.0.0.31) Tue Jul 17 08:05:25 2007 : Info: rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server for #8 Tue Jul 17 08:05:25 2007 : Error: rlm_sql (sql): failed after re-connect Tue Jul 17 08:05:25 2007 : Auth: No huntgroup access: [xxx] (from client ATWRE22e7601 port 0) Tue Jul 17 08:05:25 2007 : Auth: Invalid user: [xxx] (from client ATWRE22e7601 port 0) Tue Jul 17 08:05:38 2007 : Info: rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server for #7 Tue Jul 17 08:05:38 2007 : Error: rlm_sql (sql): failed after re-connect Tue Jul 17 08:05:38 2007 : Auth: No huntgroup access: [xxx] (from client ATWRE22e7601 port 0) Tue Jul 17 08:05:38 2007 : Auth: Invalid user: [xxx] (from client ATWRE22e7601 port 0) Tue Jul 17 08:06:00 2007 : Info: rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server for #6 Tue Jul 17 08:06:00 2007 : Auth: Login OK: [xxx] (from client ATWRE22b7201 port 2 cli 10.0.0.31)

Hope the logfile is sufficient, otherwise I would have to let FR run in debug-mode over night....

The funny thing is, that this problem doesn't occure when all entries in the huntgroups file are "commented out"

So my question is, is there a config parameter to tell FR to "wait" a bit longer in the preprocess module (I assume) for the MYSQL query to deliver its answer?

thanks alot regards thomas pudil

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