Changing "radlog" calls to RDEBUG & setting Module-Failure-Message

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Sun Feb 3 15:53:06 CET 2013


  Some time later...

Phil Mayers wrote:
> I run a small local patch that changes a few irritating calls to radlog
> into RDEBUG and sets the Module-Failure-Message inside rlm_eap; these
> are useful for logging per-request failure causes.
> 
> See here:
> 
> https://github.com/philmayers/freeradius-server/commit/baab30d0f16dc449c47a4686d86717c1a8f0712e

  I think it's petty good.

> More generally - I personally think that radlog calls are appropriate
> for whole-server events (e.g. upstream proxy down) but not per-request
> events (except possibly very, very fatal errors) as a "radius.log" can
> grow surprisingly large when a client is banging away at you. What do
> others think?

  Yes.

  Alan DeKok.


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