buffered-sql, radsqlrelay and fault resilience

[Phil Mayers]

On 11/06/13 13:12, Yann Belin wrote:
>>> We then have a detail reader (see "copy-acct-to-home-server"
>>> virtual server) that reads this file and relays it to the
>>> management RADIUS server for centralised logging.
>>>
>>> If the management server goes down, the files on disc just grow
>>> until it comes back again and then the logs are relayed over.
>>>
>>> It works well, and means that there are no dependencies on the
>>> management server for service to be operational.
>>
>> Checking that now. I'd rather avoid having a radius server instance
>> running on management server, but I don't think I have much other
>> options here.
>
> Seems that running additional radius server on management server will
> be a no-go for me. I'm reverting back to first idea and trying to find
> a workaround to get freeradius to start even if accounting/management
> DB is unreachable... Any ideas welcome.

Run the detail reader in a separate FreeRADIUS process on the local 
machine, and wrap it in a sleep/restart watchdog?