This text describes how to setup both the free radius daemon so that
it is automatically restarted upon death. To do this, we'll use
- either Dan Bernstein's 'daemontools' package, the inittab file or
- radwatch tool from this distribution.
+ either Dan Bernstein's 'daemontools' package or the inittab file.
+
+ Note: The radwatch script that used to be part of this distribution,
+ is depreciated and SHOULD NOT BE USED.
1. SETTING UP DAEMONTOOLS
properly. If it doesn't work, that means your radius start command
is bad and you need to fix it.
-4. SUPERVISING WITH RADWATCH
-
- See man radwatch for details
-
-5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Document author: Jeff Carneal
daemontools auther: Dan Bernstein
Further daemontool notes (below): Antonio Dias
Radwatch note: Andrey Melnikov
-6. FURTHER DAEMONTOOLS NOTES
+5. FURTHER DAEMONTOOLS NOTES
Here are some notes by Antonia Dias sent to the free radius mailing list.
Some of you may find this useful after reading the above and the docs for
happen, \fBradwatch\fP sends mail to \fIroot\fP informing her of
the event, waits 10 seconds, then restarts the server.
.PP
-The FreeRADIUS server should now stable enough that this wrapper
-is probably no longer needed.
+This script \fBSHOULD NOT BE USED\fP! It's only here for historical
+purposes, and WILL be deleted in a future version of the
+the server.
+.PP
+Please see '\fIdoc/supervise-radiusd.txt\fP' for info on methods of
+supervising your radius installation.
.SH OPTIONS
Passed directly to the radius server - see the manpage of \fBradiusd\fP.
.SH SEE ALSO
# the server.
#
# If you want to watch and re-start the server, we recommend
-# reading the file ../doc/supervise-radiusd.txt
+# reading the file doc/supervise-radiusd.txt
#
#
# Version: $Id$
ldconfig -n $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}
# logs
touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/log/radius/radius.log
-touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/log/radius/radwatch.log
+#touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/log/radius/radwatch.log
touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/log/radius/radwtmp
touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/log/radius/radutmp
# SuSE
/usr/sbin/check-radiusd-config
/usr/sbin/checkrad
/usr/sbin/radiusd
-/usr/sbin/radwatch
+#/usr/sbin/radwatch
# shared libs
/%{_libdir}/*.so*
/%{_libdir}/*.la*
/var/log/radius/radutmp
%ghost /var/log/radius/radwtmp
%ghost /var/log/radius/radius.log
-%ghost /var/log/radius/radwatch.log
+#%ghost /var/log/radius/radwatch.log
%files devel
/%{_libdir}/*.a
%changelog -n freeradius
-* Wed Nov 7 2002 - nix@susesecurity.com
+* Fri Nov 8 2002 - nix@susesecurity.com
+- Removed radwatch from the spec file as it's no longer supported.
+* Thu Nov 7 2002 - nix@susesecurity.com
- Merged some changes from stark@suse.de including if statement to
take care of > SuSE 8.0
* Wed Nov 6 2002 - nix@susesecurity.com