Questions about upgrading Freeradius

[Dusty Doris]

That's a perfect example of something that you'd find in testing, but 
might end up spending all night fighting if you just go and make the 
change.

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Paolo Rotela wrote:

> One thing I came across when upgrading from 0.9.3 to 1.0.5 is that the 
> "default" allowed characters for sql queries changed. I used [ and ] in my 
> usernames, so the results after upgrade whas that my accounting reccords 
> where set with the mime-equivalent of [ and ]. I had to add these characters 
> as allowed ones in sql.conf
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Pagillo" <linda at n2thenet.com>
> To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading Freeradius
>
>
>> Thanks Dusty, i know you were just kidding with me and that's cool :) I'm
>> just having a bad day hehe. So what i would have to do is set up freeradius
>> 0.9.3 on a different system and then upgrade it as a test and if everything
>> goes well i should do it on my production system?
>> ----- 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 12:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading Freeradius
>> 
>> 
>>> I was just giving you a hard time.  Its a little longer of a process, but
>>> it will definately save you a lot of time and more importantly a lot of
>>> stress if you do run into issues.
>>> 
>>> BTW - I am in the process of replacing all our radius servers here too.
>>> So far, I've had no issues with configurations moving between .9 or .93
>>> and 1.0.5.  My setup is pretty simple here though.
>>> 
>>> Good Luck with the upgrade.
>>> 
>>> -Dusty Doris
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Linda Pagillo wrote:
>>> 
>>> > I wish you had my job too because i'm about fed up with this crap..
>> Anyway,
>>> > thanks for the reply, i'll do it.
>>> > ----- 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 11:48 AM
>>> > Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading Freeradius
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> 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
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> 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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