Hi Klara,
thanks for raising this issue.
It has now been fixed in the latest patch set.
Cheers.
On Monday 11 April 2011 09:14:05 am Klara Mall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that there's a problem when you start radiator for the
> first time (i.e. with nonexistent logfile) and User is set to some
> non-root user. The logfile is created when radiator is still running
> as root (at least when debug log is enabled), so it's not writable
> anymore for the radiator process after the effective user id has
> been changed.
>
> What I did to fix it:
>
> --- a/Radius/ServerConfig.pm
> +++ b/Radius/ServerConfig.pm
> @@ -530,9 +530,24 @@
> # Only change if it not the same already
> if ($> != $uid)
> {
> - $> = $uid;
> - $self->log($main::LOG_ERR, "Could not set User to
> $self->{User} (got $>): $!") - unless $> == $uid;
> + # Try to change log file owner first if log file exists
> + my $logfile =
> &Radius::Util::format_special($self->{LogFile}); + if (-e
> $logfile) {
> + my $cnt = chown $uid, -1, $logfile;
> + if ($cnt == 1) {
> + $> = $uid;
> + $self->log($main::LOG_ERR, "Could not set User to
> $self->{User} (got $>): $!") + unless $> == $uid;
> + }
> + else {
> + $self->log($main::LOG_ERR, "Could not change log
> file $logfile owner to $self->{User}: $!"); + }
> + }
> + else {
> + $> = $uid;
> + $self->log($main::LOG_ERR, "Could not set User to
> $self->{User} (got $>): $!") + unless $> == $uid;
> + }
> }
> }
> else
>
>
> Regards
> Klara
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