[RADIATOR] Development Ver. Question

[John Goubeaux]

Guys, Thanks for the tips on doing this. I am putting together some 
notes/details on the process and will get back if I have any other 
questions.

-john

At 11:12 PM +0200 1/11/12, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
>On 01/11/2012 09:46 PM, John Goubeaux wrote:
>
>>  I have a basic "best practices" question on how I might best run a
>>  separate "development" ver of radiator for testing without impacting
>>  a production instance on my network.
>
>>  Can I, and should I do this on the same host running the production
>>  radiusd ?  Meaning can I safely run another instance that points to
>>  fresh config file and have it run on an alternate port ?
>
>Yes, this is possible. Just see that log and pid file names etc. do not
>overlap. Read-only files, such as dictionary, can of course be shared.
>With careful configuration you should not have problems.
>
>One common case is to have a separate authentication and accounting
>instance. So besides testing, multiple instances can be run for separate
>functionality and/or load balancing purposes too.
>
>>  I'd like to
>>  do some testing for a development wireless domain and minimize the
>>  impact on any current production use of radiator and would prefer not
>>  to have to do it on another box IF I can do so with no impact to
>>  production use.
>
>I see no problem doing this. One option might be to run the instances
>under different uids and groups. If the test instance tries to e.g.,
>write to wrong log file, the file permissions should stop it causing any
>actual harm.
>
>Thanks!
>Heikki
>
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