disable response for accounting

[Alan DeKok]

On Sep 14, 2016, at 4:23 PM, liran kessel <lirankessel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> we have a freereadius server that is only responsible for collecting accounting info from a mobile network and storing to mysql.
>> However the network administrators have requested we don’t send back respond messages to confirm we received the message.

  In recent versions of the server.

accounting {
	...

	do_not_reply
}

>> I have found this thread from a few years ago and did as it suggested.  
>> 
>> http://lists.freeradius.org/pipermail/freeradius-users/2012-May/060723.html <http://lists.freeradius.org/pipermail/freeradius-users/2012-May/060723.html>
>> 
>> but while it seems to have stopped sending responses to the network, it stopped logging the info into the mysql DB, eventhough it continued to log to the detail log file. and so I had to roll back.

  if you put "fail" as the last thing in the "accounting" section, it will still write to MySQL.

>> Can anyone explain why this caused the server to stop writing to mysql?

  You put "fail" before "sql".

  Alan DeKok.