(RADIATOR) Radius upgrade 1.91 <-> 3.6

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Wesley -

I generally recommend something like the following - the directories 
shown are what I usually use, but feel free to use whatever suits your 
particular installation.

Create a directory to store the configuration files, hooks, db files, 
etc.

	mkdir /usr/local/etc/radius

Copy all of the above files to this directory.

	cp .... /usr/local/etc/radius
	.....

Create a directory for the Radiator distributions:

	mkdir /usr/local/src/Radiator

Copy the new Radiator distribution to this directory:

	cp /tmp/Radiator-3.6.tgz /usr/local/src/Radiator

Unpack the distribution:

	cd /usr/local/src/Radiator
	gzip -c -c Radiator-3.6.tgz | tar xvf -
	cd Radiator-3.6
	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make test
	*** DO NOT DO make install ***

Copy the dictionary file to /usr/local/etc/radius

	cp dictionary /usr/local/etc/radius

In your configuration file set DbDir to /usr/local/etc/radius

DbDir /usr/local/etc/radius

Create the log directory:

	mkdir /var/log/radius

In your configuration file set LogDir to /var/log/radius

LogDir /var/log/radius

Now in your startup script you will need to add a "cd 
/usr/local/src/Radiator/Radiator-3.6" before starting radiusd and use 
the -config_file parameter to pass the configuration file location

	cd /usr/local/src/Radiator/Radiator-3.6; perl radiusd -config_file 
/usr/local/etc/radius/radius.cfg

Doing things this way lets you keep any number of Radiator 
distributions in a clean and orderly fashion, and switching between 
them is as simple as changing a single line in your startup script.

This topic has also been discussed several times on the mailing list:

	www.open.com.au/archives/radiator

regards

Hugh


On Tuesday, Jul 29, 2003, at 04:37 Australia/Melbourne, Wesley Hof 
wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently running 1.91, I want to upgrade to 3.6, is there a way to
> upgrade and keep my existing configfiles/hooks/berkeley.db files ?
>
> If so, what is the easy way to do it ? Or is it best to build new
> configfiles with new features?
>
> Thanks in advance for reply'ing to this post.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Wesley.
>
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> Uninet International NV/Planet Internet.
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NB: have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?

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