FreeRadius Log File ?

[Scott Miller]

> >Hello all - I have freeradius with mysql up and running perfectly.  I
> >recently "upgraded" from icradius because it seems to have dropped off
> the
> >face of the earth.  Anyways - there was a feature in icradius where I
> could
> >poll the log file to get customers authentication status.  I created a
> link
> >to a php file which referenced this log file for our techs to help with
> >troubleshooting.  The file looks like this:
> >
> >
> ><?php
> >
> >include ('header.php');
> >$file ="/var/log/radius.log";
> >$limit="60";
> >
> >$fp = popen("/usr/bin/tail -$limit $file", 'r');
> >if (! $fp ) {
> >  echo 'unable to pipe command';
> >}
> >
> >while (!feof($fp) ) {
> >   $line = fgets($fp, 4096);
> >print $line."<br>";
> >
> >}
> >
> >include ('footer.php');
> >?>
> >
> >But - there doesn't seem to be any log file I can poll this type of info
> >from.  Here's an excerpt of what I was able to get with the above:
> >
> >Wed Jun 28 13:22:13 2006: Auth: Login OK: [sshort] (from nas
> CiscoAS5300/S0)
> >socket 0 (0 sec)
> >Wed Jun 28 13:22:56 2006: Auth: Login OK: [lilia] (from nas Cisco
> AS5300/S0)
> >socket 0 (0 sec)
> >Wed Jun 28 13:23:03 2006: Auth: Login OK: [eaglesight] (from nas
> >CiscoAS5300/S0) socket 0 (0 sec)
> >Wed Jun 28 13:23:56 2006: Auth: Login OK: [dierman] (from nas
> >CiscoAS5300/S0) socket 0 (0 sec)
> >Wed Jun 28 13:23:58 2006: Auth: Login OK: [rprice] (from nas
> CiscoAS5300/S0)
> >socket 0 (0 sec)
> >Wed Jun 28 13:25:32 2006: Auth: Login OK: [hafens] (from nas
> CiscoAS5300/S0)
> >socket 0 (0 sec)
> >Wed Jun 28 13:25:43 2006: Auth: Login OK: [edie_a] (from nas
> CiscoAS5300/S0)
> >socket 0 (0 sec)
> >Wed Jun 28 13:26:09 2006: Auth: Login OK: [megameg] (from nas
> >CiscoAS5300/S0) socket 0 (0 sec)
> >Wed Jun 28 13:26:35 2006: Auth: Login OK: [stinger] (from nas
> >CiscoAS5300/S0) socket 0 (0 sec)
> >Wed Jun 28 13:26:39 2006: Auth: Login OK: [inahat] (from nas
> CiscoAS5300/S0)
> >socket 0 (0 sec)
> >Wed Jun 28 14:26:57 2006: Auth: Login OK: [cafe] (from
> >nascore219.interbel.net/S10101001) socket 0 (0 sec)
> >
> >
> >Do we have a log file we can poll this type of info from, or does it
> store
> >it in the mysql database somewhere?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Scott Miller
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Additional Information:
> >
> >I did find in the radiusd.conf file:
> >
> ># allowed values: {no, yes}
> >#
> >log_stripped_names = yes
> >
> >#  Log authentication requests to the log file.
> >#
> >#  allowed values: {no, yes}
> >#
> >log_auth = yes
> >
> >#  Log passwords with the authentication requests.
> >#  log_auth_badpass  - logs password if it's rejected
> >#  log_auth_goodpass - logs password if it's correct
> >#
> >#  allowed values: {no, yes}
> >#
> >log_auth_badpass = yes
> >log_auth_goodpass = yes
> >
> >But have not found where this log file resides.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Scott Miller
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> hi,
> 
> in the radius.conf there must be on the top the path variables of
> radius... something like following :
> See 'doc/variables.txt' for more information.
> 
>      23 prefix = /usr/local
>      24 exec_prefix = ${prefix}
>      25 sysconfdir = /etc/
>      26 localstatedir = ${prefix}/var
>      27 sbindir = ${exec_prefix}/sbin
>      28 logdir = ${localstatedir}/log/radius
>      29 raddbdir = ${sysconfdir}/raddb
>      30 radacctdir = ${logdir}/radacct
>      31
>      32 #  Location of config and logfiles.
>      33 confdir = ${raddbdir}
>      34 run_dir = ${localstatedir}/run/radiusd
>      35
>      36 #
>      37 #  The logging messages for the server are appended to the
>      38 #  tail of this file.
>      39 #
>      40 log_file = ${logdir}/radius.log
> 
> 
> bye
> -



[Scott Miller]
I have verified my radius.conf file contains the following:

prefix = /usr/local
exec_prefix = ${prefix}
sysconfdir = ${prefix}/etc
localstatedir = ${prefix}/var
sbindir = ${exec_prefix}/sbin
logdir = ${localstatedir}/log/radius
raddbdir = ${sysconfdir}/raddb
radacctdir = ${logdir}/radacct

There was no log file in /usr/local/log/radius/

So I created the file radius.log in that directory - change the permissions
to 777, but still nothing gets written to it.