(RADIATOR) Radiator as a Windows Service

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Brian -

You might try installing "cygwin" (www.cygwin.com) to see whether "tail 
-f" works.

You might also consider using an AuthLog clause (section 6.50 in the 
manual).

regards

Hugh


On Sunday, Mar 30, 2003, at 11:17 Australia/Melbourne, Brian Morris 
wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> The ability to run Radiator as an NT service is excellent and I would 
> like
> to say well done indeed!
>
> Personally, I very much like the ability to monitor a users ability 
> (or more
> importantly their inability) to login in real time.  Running Radiator 
> in a
> command window allows me to view the log file "as it happens" - much 
> like a
> "tail -f" would do in a Unix environment.
>
> Is their any way to view the logfile in real time (or close to real 
> time)
> when running Radiator as a service on NT?
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian Morris
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike McCauley" <mikem at open.com.au>
> To: <radiator at open.com.au>; <mikem at open.com.au>
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 7:40 PM
> Subject: (RADIATOR) Radiator as a Windows Service
>
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Up until now, users wishing to run Radiator as a Service on Windows 
>> were
>> required to install and configure a Service program such as SRVANY or
>> FireDaemon.
>>
>> We have recently uploaded patches to the Radiator 3.5 patches area 
>> that
> allow
>> Radiator to install and run itself as a Windows Service. This has also
>> involved some restructuring of some of the internals of radiusd. These
>> patches will appear in the next release of Radiator but in the 
>> meantime we
>> would welcome any comments on its use.
>>
>> Now, on Windows,  radiusd supports some new command line arguments:
>>
>> -service
>> Tells Radiator to run as a Windows Service. Requires Win32::Daemon, 
>> and
>> requires that the service have been previously installed with the
>> -installservice flag. Requires Win32::Daemon.
>>
>> -installservice
>> On Windows, installs or reinstalls Radiator to run as a Windows 
>> Service.
> The
>> service will be configured to run Radiator with all the same 
>> arguments as
> was
>> passed with -installservice, and it will add the -service flag. After
> this,
>> the Radiator service will appear in the Windows Service list as 
>> `Radiator
>> Radius Server'. The Service will automatically start next time the 
>> host is
>> booted. Requires Win32::Daemon.
>>
>> -uninstallservice
>> On Windows, removes Radiator from Running as a Windows Service. 
>> Ensure the
>> service is stopped before uninstalling it. Requires Win32::Daemon.
>>
>> Win32::Daemon can be installed on Windows with:
>> ppm install http://www.roth.net/perl/packages/win32-daemon.ppd
>>
>> None of these changes are expected to effect the ability to run 
>> Radiator
> as a
>> service under SRVANY or FireDaemon, or as a daemon on Unix.
>>
>> Furthermore, on Windows, the command
>> perl Makefile.PL install
>> now also creates a folder C:\Program Files\Radiator and installs 
>> sample
>> configuration, users and dictionary files (if they are not already 
>> there).
>> This is expected to improve the installation process for Windows 
>> users.
>>
>> Test and comments direct to me are welcome.
>> Cheers.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mike McCauley                               mikem at open.com.au
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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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