Reloading Freeradius configs via HUP

[Phil Pierotti]

Wed Dec 29 14:49:11 2010 : Info:  Module: Reloaded module "files"


So that would cover the HINTS and USERS *files* would it not?

Or am I missing something?

Thanks,
Phil P

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Stephan Kirsten
<stephan.kirsten at fbn-dd.de>wrote:

>  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
>
>
> -
> List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
>
>
>
> -
> List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See
> http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freeradius.org/pipermail/freeradius-users/attachments/20101229/2d354144/attachment.html>