(RADIATOR) Writing to Radiator's Logfile from an AuthBy EXTERNAL program

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Bart -

At 15:20 +1100 01/11/6, Bart Masters wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Got a lil prob here - hopefully someone can see a way through it. 
>I've got a perl program which I'm calling from the AuthBy EXTERNAL 
>clause within my handler.cfg file.  Within my program, I want to 
>write entries to the main Radiator logfile, ie the one that Radiator 
>itself is writing to.  I can't use the call that a hook would use, ie
>
>  &main::log($main::LOG_DEBUG, "This is an error message");
>
>because being its own separate program, it can't get to the 
>main::log subroutine.
>
>I could try using Radius::Log in my own program - but that would 
>also mean having to get hold of the logname from Radius.cfg and the 
>like, and I fear that could turn out to be a nightmare.
>
>Has anyone done this before?  Is there a simple option that I'm just 
>missing?  Any ideas/answers would be greatly appreciated.

Given that you are dealing with two complelely different program 
spaces, I don't see how you can do what you are describing without 
hard-coding the logfile name in the external program, or possibly 
passing something in the arguments to the external program. You may 
be able to do the latter by inserting the relevant value into a 
pseudo-attribute in the current request before you call the external 
program.

It would be fairly simple to do this in a PreAuthHook and you will 
find some example hooks in the file "goodies/hooks.txt" in the 
distribution.

regards

Hugh

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