RedHat FreeRadius reload or restart?

[John Dennis]

On 10/05/2012 09:24 AM, Mike Diggins wrote:
> I've been running the RedHat "version" of FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.3 for a
> few years. Each morning I update the users authorization file and run
> "service radius reload" for the changes to take affect. I recently
> patched the system, which updated FreeRADIUS to version 2.1.12. I find
> now that after reloading, using the same script, it appears to reload
> successfully but my authentications (through ntlm_auth to an MS AD)
> begin failing. If I instead use "service radiusd restart", it's fine.
> Did anything change between versions that would explain this?

Nothing changed with respect to how reload operates on Red Hat systems. 
However I seem to recall some issue with mschap after the server was 
HUP'ed to reload the config in some versions of FreeRADIUS I don't 
remember the details of that issue, it's probably in the list archive. 
Maybe someone else remembers better than I.

However, if you use a backend data store (i.e. sql or ldap) to store 
your user data you won't have to reload your configs, just a suggestion.

John

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