(RADIATOR) Radiator as a Windows Service

[Mike McCauley]

Hlello Brian,


On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:14 am, Hugh Irvine wrote:
> 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).

You might also consider using Radar to monitor your Radiator: it can monitor 
it for healt and email you, pop up alarms etc if the Radiator is apparently 
not responding.

Cheers.

>
> 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
> >> Open System Consultants Pty. Ltd            Unix, Perl, Motif, C++,
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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?

-- 
Mike McCauley                               mikem at open.com.au
Open System Consultants Pty. Ltd            Unix, Perl, Motif, C++, WWW
24 Bateman St Hampton, VIC 3188 Australia   http://www.open.com.au
Phone +61 3 9598-0985                       Fax   +61 3 9598-0955

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Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, Active Directory, EAP, TLS, 
TTLS, PEAP etc on Unix, Windows, MacOS etc.

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