debugging mode

[Christopher Carver]

Correct, but you don't want to run it in a heavy production environment
for very long.  While I don't have proof, it would HAVE to be less
efficient because it isn't using threads and its taking the time to
print everything.  A little trick I use when I need to test something in
production is to kill the process, run it like this...

radiusd -X &> log

... then I will do my dialup test and look at the contents of log.  All
stdout and stderr will be there.  When you have the information you need
you can just restart the process without -X.  Its necessary for me to
redirect the output because our radius server can get up to 10 requests
per second, far too much to simply look at as it comes in.

Chris Carver
Network Engineer

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 16:37 -0400, Dennis Skinner wrote:
> Just do:
> 
> radiusd -X
> 
> You should be doing this on a test machine anyway.  Debugging on a
> production system is tough.
> 
> It does not use any more system resources than running it in normal
> mode.  It just prints what it is doing to the screen.  Try it and see.
> It won't crash you system (unless your system is *VERY* unstable to
> begin with).
> 
> Giuseppe Parlato wrote:
> > maybe I found the solution looking at the wiki guide:
> > radiusd -sfxxyz -l stdout
> > 
> > does it use much system resource?
> > 
> > 
> > Giuseppe
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: Giuseppe Parlato
> > To: FreeRadius users mailing list
> > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:51 AM
> > Subject: debugging mode
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I want to look at Radius managing clients-database queries, however I'm
> > quite afraid to crash my linux enabling debugging with radiusd -X
> > command (or maybe I should do that at night). There is no other way to
> > see Radius "actions"..not log. I want to learn more.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > 
> > Giuseppe
> > 
> > 
> > 
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