RADIUS 2.x - modules not loaded correctly

[Axel Vogel]

Hi Alan,

your proposals are very good.
I will not make my mistake a second time.
But think of me as an administrator who takes a LINUX distribution
with precompiled freeradiusd and who reads all the manuals and FAQs
and then modifies the configuration files in an old-fashioned way
and - nothing works like expected.
Wouldn't it be better to make configuration easy to use for
(only)administrators?

Please look at the configuration of virtual hosts in apache2.
The httpd.conf incudes only files with a well defined suffix
  vhosts.d/*.conf
I think that they know why ...

Axel

Alan Buxey:
> hi,
> 
> dont leave the unwanted/old modules in the modules directory.
> make a new directory called modules-available and put them into there.
> 
> better still, emulate the method used for virtual servers and
> move modules to modules-available and then make a directory called
> modules and synlink the required files from modules-available
> 
> (it would be good if the server did modules-enabled/ etc like the
> virtual servers...)
> 
> be aware, too, that if you
> 
> 'make install'
> 
> over a previous version it will write files that are non-existant
> into place...eg if you didnt need modules/detail and blew it away or
> renamed it then it'll put the normal original copy into place.
> 
> either way, how the system works means you cannot just leave the
> originals lying around.  the same is very very much true with
> apache 2.x and its ocnfig files.... especially those with eg Fedora/RHEL
> where it'll read /etc/httpd/conf.d/* (indeed, same issue with just moving
> files out the way and then 'yum update' etc)
> 
> alan


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