FR3 Debugging Switches

[Adam Bishop]

It appears the debugging switches don't work quite as I'd expect in FreeRADIUS 3 when RadSec is configured.

  # radiusd -fxx -l stdout

Works as expected (threaded debugging with no timestamps), however:

  # radiusd -fXx -l stdout
  <snip>
  Wed Oct  9 14:44:18 2013 : Error: /opt/freeradiuss/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/tls[7]: Threading must be enabled for TLS sockets to function properly.
  Wed Oct  9 14:44:18 2013 : Error: /opt/freeradiuss/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/tls[7]: You probably need to do 'radiusd -fxx -l stdout' for debugging

'-fXxx -l stdout' reacts in the same way, but '-fxxx -l stdout' does run and produce timestamps, so I think this one is just a documentation issue - I can't find anything doc/ that says xxx is a valid combination.  radiusd --help also indicates that -fXx should still be valid.

Similarly, when doing a config check:

  # ./sbin/radiusd -Cfxx -l stdout
  <snip>
  /opt/freeradiuss/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/tls[7]: Threading must be enabled for TLS sockets to function properly.
  /opt/freeradiuss/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/tls[7]: You probably need to do 'radiusd -fxx -l stdout' for debugging

The init scripts for debian (possibly RHEL too) trigger the latter one, as it runs a config check on restart (which bails out due to the error above).

Regards,

Adam Bishop

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