Freeradius with daily counter

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Ali Jawad <alijawad1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Fajar
> Thanks for the input, so if I use dailycounter instead of daily, and of
> course dailycounter is defined in sql/mysql/counter.conf does freeradius
> automatically know that it should look into sql counter.conf, or should I

Have you read the configuration file (i.e. radiusd.conf)? If not, please do.

Here's the upstream version (I assume you use distro-bundled FR-2.x):
https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/blob/v2.x.x/raddb/radiusd.conf.in#L746



> comment out counter without db ?

In general, only use/activate the modules you need. Do you need the
counter module?

-- 
Fajar

> Regards
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Ali Jawad <alijawad1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > counter daily {
>> >
>> >         filename = ${db_dir}/db.daily
>>
>>
>> > rlm_counter: Failed to open file /etc/raddb/db.daily: Permission denied
>> >
>> > /etc/raddb/modules/counter[71]: Instantiation failed for module "daily"
>>
>> > What strikes me as weird is  why does freeradius try to look in db.daily
>> > which does not exist, instead of the MySQL table radacct ?
>>
>> counter -> store data in a file (gdbm)
>> sqlcounter -> use accounting data stored in sql
>>
>>
>> > Any pointers in the right directions please?
>>
>> Try http://wiki.freeradius.org/modules/Rlm_sqlcounter
>>
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