Reloading Freeradius configs via HUP

[Stephan Kirsten]

Am 29.12.2010 06:56, schrieb Phil Pierotti:
> Hi All,
>
> So today I thought I'd try my hand at "nicely" reloading the 
> freeradius config using signals rather than hard restarting the daemon.
>
> I added new config to the hints file and to the users file.
>
> Wed Dec 29 14:49:11 2010 : Info: Received HUP signal.
> Wed Dec 29 14:49:11 2010 : Info: Received HUP.
> Wed Dec 29 14:49:11 2010 : Info:  Module: Reloaded module "suffix"
> Wed Dec 29 14:49:11 2010 : Info:  Module: Reloaded module "auth_log"
> Wed Dec 29 14:49:11 2010 : Info:  Module: Reloaded module "files"
> Wed Dec 29 14:49:11 2010 : Info:  Module: Reloaded module "detail"
> Wed Dec 29 14:49:11 2010 : Info:  Module: Reloaded module 
> "attr_filter.access_reject"
> Wed Dec 29 14:49:11 2010 : Info:  Module: Reloaded module 
> "attr_filter.accounting_response"
> Wed Dec 29 14:49:11 2010 : Info:  Module: Reloaded module "pap"
> Wed Dec 29 14:49:11 2010 : Info: Loaded virtual server status
> Wed Dec 29 14:49:11 2010 : Info: Loaded virtual server <default>
>
>
> Ok, so that looks good.
>
> However freeradius continued to act as if the configuration changes 
> had not been made.
>
> I then went back and did a hard stop and start of freeradius, and now 
> it is clearly using the new configs.
>
> Am I missing something? This should have just worked that simply, right?
Only changes to the beforementioned modules are applied after the HUP 
signal, others wont.
check if your changes are on these modules or not.
>
> (before anyone asks the obvious, no I am not running in debug mode. I 
> don't have any more detail on what it was thinking at the time)
>
> Phil P
>
>
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