Executing an external program

[Matthew Newton]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 05:33:49PM +0500, Muhammad Usman wrote:
>         update reply {
>                 Tmp-String-0 = "%{exec:/usr/bin/java -jar
> "/var/AccountingProcessor.jar" arg1 arg2 >> /home/user/capture.log}"
>         }

Firing up java on each packet is likely to kill your service.


> ++[exec] returns noop
> [attr_filter.accounting_response]       expand: %{User-Name} ->
> muhd.usman at hotmail.com
> attr_filter: Matched entry DEFAULT at line 12
> ++[attr_filter.accounting_response] returns updated
> ERROR: Badly formatted variable: %{exec:/usr/bin/java -jar

You've got quoting problems. Either escape the quotes around
/var/AccountingProcessor.jar, remove them, or use ' instead.

Matthew


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