over 30 radiusd processes

[Craig Campbell]

Yes, two(2) binaries and one (1) shell script are called via exec as follows 
from the file,

    - user (an authentication binary program -         Exec-Program-Wait = 
"/usr/local/sbin/auth -- %{User-Name} %{User-Password} 
%{%{Called-Station-Id}:-Missing} %{%{NAS-IP-Address}:-Missing} 
%{%{Calling-Station-Id}:-Missing} %{%{NAS-Port-Type}:-Missing} 
%{Vendor-Specific}" ,)

    -acct_user (shell script - Exec-Program = 
"%{exec:/usr/local/sbin/acctstop.sh}", )
and
    -attr_rewrite module (a hex translation binary -  replacewith = 
"%{exec:/usr/local/sbin/hexconvert -lX %{User-Name} }")

Is this bad?
Is there a better alternative?


Thanks so much!
-craig



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan DeKok" <aland at deployingradius.com>
To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: over 30 radiusd processes


> Craig Campbell wrote:
>> radius-a seems to be getting the bulk of the radius records.  Normally,
>> it has a single process.
>> Last night it spawned a bunch of children that seem to be loitering...
>
>  Are you forking shell scripts via "exec"?
>
>> radius-b and radius-c don't have more than a single radiusd process.
>>
>> Any idea what is going on?  Why all the children?  Do I need to be
>> concerned?  Is this normal?
>
>  It's not normal.  They're likely zombies that need to go away.  The
> server normally cleans up any zombie children, but...
>
>  Alan DeKok.
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