(RADIATOR) How to stop radiusd if hook code fails

[Frank Danielson]

There is a kill function in perl so you don't need exec. I would recommend
not using kill -9 unless you really have to. Try 'perldoc -f kill' for more
information.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Harsh [mailto:michael_harsh at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 4:24 PM
To: Frank Danielson; 'radiator at open.com.au'
Subject: RE: (RADIATOR) How to stop radiusd if hook code fails


Thanks a bunch Frank.

kill is exactly what I needed. I'm trying to kill from
within a module called by the hook. So, I needed to
kill the ppid using exec('kill', '-9', $ppid).

Yes, this has been covered before and I found pretty
much the same line of code in the mailing list
archives when I searched for shutdown. But I had been
searching for something like kill or die and didn't
find anything.

Thanks again.

--- Frank Danielson <fdanielson at csky.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael-
> 
> I use 'kill "TERM", $$' in my hooks to stop Radiator
> under Solaris. The TERM
> signal lets Radiator run the shutdown hook if you
> have one.
> 
> Frank Danielson
> Infrastructure Architect
> 
> ClearSky Mobile Media
> 56 E. Pine St.
> Orlando, FL 32801
> USA
> 
> fdanielson at csky.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Harsh
> [mailto:Michael.Harsh at billingconcepts.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:07 AM
> To: 'radiator at open.com.au'
> Subject: (RADIATOR) How to stop radiusd if hook code
> fails
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to make radiusd die if some of my hook
> code does not complete
> properly. A die in the code only causes my code to
> die. Is there any way to
> return an error code so radiusd will stop? My
> experiments with this have not
> worked. I also tried using a system call to
> /etc/init.d/radiator stop, but
> that did not completely stop Radius either.
> 
> Any ideas how I might accomplish this?
> 
> The point to this is to get clients to failover to a
> secondary server if
> this hook code does not complete. As it is now, my
> code fails but Radius
> tries authenticating from a file vs. proxying which
> is the norm. Of course
> the account is not in the file and an Access-Reject
> is issued, denying
> service. 
> 
> Thank you,
> Michael Harsh
> 
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