Odd behavior?

[J Kephart]

On 03/13/2015 12:03 PM, J Kephart wrote:
> Thanks, Alan.  We'll try out the truncate method as a start, and see
> about upgrading to a newer version, which will likely mean a new server
> build, just to ensure our service doesn't go down while we build it.
>
> What's curious to me, after further review, is that it took that entire
> 2+ hours before FR appeared even to attempt connecting to its database. 
> Would the HUP possibly cause that?
>
> Jim
>
>
> On 03/13/2015 11:34 AM, A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> We're running on a CentOS 6.6 system, with FR v2.1.12, which is the
>>> package that is distributed by CentOS/RH.  Each day, the logrotate
>>> routing rotates the radius.log (and compresses it), and then restarts
>>> FR.  This morning, however, the radius log showed that the process
>>> restarted, but that it did absolutely nothing for the next two hours and
>>> 13 minutes.
>> dont restart the FR process...just use copytruncate as the method in logrotate
>> - thus meaning that if you are using eg EAP cache, the cache stays... also, looks
>> like you are not restarting the service fully but just HUP'ing - 2.1.12 is very very old
>> and so many things have been fixed since that release.  if not using 3.0.7 then
>> at least look at upgrading to 2.2.6  (which is actually config compatible to your version so
>> minor work to change)
>>
>> alan
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Alan,

We did the copytruncate, and it's not had a problem since.  Keeping our
fingers crossed for the moment, until we can upgrade ...

Thanks for the info!

Jim