kill -HUP sometimes causes "rlm_pap: mschap xlat failed"

[John Dennis]

On 04/12/2012 09:59 AM, Jan Weiher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a strange problem with FR 2.1.12, sometimes (not always) when
> logrotate ran, freeradius goes bonkers and responds to every pap request
> with "mschap xlat failed". Restarting FR fixes this magically and all
> works fine again. I created a small and hackish script, which restarts
> FR when this happens. The output showed that about every second week
> (logrotate runs weekly) this happens. Because FR works fine again after
> a restart, restarting FR in debug mode is not an option to get more
> information. But here is a snipped from my radiusd.log showing the symptom:

> Is there any more information I can provide?

Yes, what is the contents of your logrotate script. There are two 
typical strategies, either it directly does a "kill -HUP" to the 
freeradius pid, or it invokes the initscript passing it the "reload" 
option. If it's the later we would need to know what the reload option 
does, e.g. does it also just do a "kill -HUP" or does it do something else?


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