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

[Matthew Newton]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 04:45:56PM +0200, Jan Weiher wrote:
> Am 12.04.2012 16:32, schrieb Matthew Newton:
> > I'll dig a bit more, but the easy solution is to change the
> > logrotate script to restart, rather than reload/HUP.
> > 
> 
> Yes, that would be a solution for me as well, because when logrotate
> runs, the freeradius server is basically idle, but I dont think this is
> a solution for somebody who needs the server 24/7.

Although a reload takes 0.02 seconds, a restart still only takes
0.3 seconds, which is so quick our NASes wouldn't even notice. I
wouldn't worry about it.

I've found out why only one of our servers is affected - the other
two have an old init script that don't implement reload, which
means logrotate hasn't actually been restarting the daemon... :)

So that seems to indicate it's the HUP that causes the problem.

Matthew


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