[Correction] Re: hints file based rewrite does not work (migration from freeradius 1.1.x to 3.0.x)

[Bernd]

I copied the wrong log file entry; corrected below:

> Hi list,
> 
> we're about to move from a freeradius (freeradius-1.1.3-1.6.el5 on
> CentOS 5) to a HA freeradius (freeradius-3.0.4-6.el7.x86_64 on CentOS
> 7) environment.
> 
> We're almost there, however, I ran into an issue: I have to rewrite an
> "%" character to "@". My 'hints' file on the old installation did this
> perfectly well:
> 
> DEFAULT User-Name =~ "bla\-bla\/([^%]+)%kroenchenstadt.de"
>         User-Name := "%{1}@kroenchenstadt.de"
> 
> However, freeradius BLA throws an error (running as 'radius -X' for
> debugging purposes):
> 

[Correction:]

(0) # Executing section preacct from file 
/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/default
(0)   preacct {
(0) ERROR: preprocess : bla\-bla\/(^%+)%kroenchenstadt.de
(0) ERROR: preprocess :              ^ Invalid variable expansion
Segmentation fault

> 
> Any idea what goes possibly wrong here? How could I circumvent the 
> problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bernd