HUP causes crashes [was: Error: ERROR: Tunnel-Password attribute in request]

[Alan DeKok]

Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> I realise this question wasn't directed to me, but the reason we HUP it 
> so often is to reload a *large* rlm_passwd map in response to users 
> registering and de-registering for things, and users being blocked and 
> unblocked.

  Ok.  I think in the CVS head, we should fix HUP so that all modules
have a "reload" method.  HUP will cause module config to be reloaded,
but will NOT change anything else.

> It's my intention to write and contribute an rlm_tdb module at some 
> point when I have the free time (ha!) which would allow update processes 
> to write to the binary map file whilst FR is running e.g.

  Sounds good to me.

  Alan DeKok.
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