Questions about upgrading Freeradius

[Dusty Doris]

You consider that much work?  I wish I had your job!

:)

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Linda Pagillo wrote:

> Thanks for your reply. Is it really this much work to do a simple upgrade?
> Is there a shortcut?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dusty Doris" <freeradius at mail.doris.cc>
> To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading Freeradius
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>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Linda Pagillo wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone:
>>>
>>> I have been using Freeradius v.0.9.3 for over a year and i wish to
>>> upgrade to the latest version. Can anyone give me detailed instructions
>>> on how to do this? I use Freeradius in a prodcution enviroment and i
>>> can't afford to mess it up. I'm running Linux RedHat 9. Do i just do a
>>> ./configure, make and make install like i did the first time? If yes,
>>> won't that overwrite all of my current config files? Thanks!
>>>
>>
>> First, I would recommend setting up a lab machine (you can do it on your
>> workstation if you need to) to test that your configs work correctly with
>> the new version.  Its probably backward compatible, but I wouldn't just
>> blindly upgrade on production and hope for the best.
>>
>> Then you could compile freeradius with --prefix.  This will put all
>> configurations, binaries, etc.. into a certain directory.  For example:
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freeradius1.0.5
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> When that's done, cd to /usr/local/freeradius1.0.5/etc/raddb and change
>> your files to make it work like it did in testing.  Shutdown the current
>> radius version and start up the new one with
>> /usr/local/freeradius1.0.5/sbin/radiusd -X and see if its working.  If so,
>> modify your startup scripts to point to the new version instead of the
>> old.
>>
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