Re: [Help-gnu-radius] radutmp, radwtmp and detail files

[Edward Rudd]

The radwtmp is created when a radius session is started (ie. the
accounting server is contacted)
Since I am not doing session logins only Authenticate-Only logins I
don't have a radwtmp  nor a detail in my radacct/NASNAME/ directory.
but I ran radsession test it..

[root]# radsession --start -l dummy -p dummpass --sid random_session_id
Accounting OK
[root]# radlast
dummy   local   000 0.0.0.0     Thu Jul 25 23:29 still logged in
[root]# radsession --stop -l dummy --sid random_session_id
Accounting OK
[root]# radlast
dummy   local   000 0.0.0.0     Thu Jul 25 23:29 - 23:30 (00:00)

so, make sure your NAS clients are talking to the accounting server.
(port 1813)

also here is what was put in my radact/local/detail file..

-- detail --

Thu Jul 25 23:29:38 2002
        NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1
        User-Name = dummy
        Acct-Status-Type = Start
        Acct-Session-Id = 1234
        NAS-Port-Id = 0
        Group-ID = drip_ws
        Group-ID = admin
        Timestamp = 1027657778
        Request-Authenticator = Verified

Thu Jul 25 23:30:29 2002
        NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1
        User-Name = dummy
        Acct-Status-Type = Stop
        Acct-Session-Id = 1234
        NAS-Port-Id = 0
        Timestamp = 1027657829
        Request-Authenticator = Verified

----

It's the same format as detaul.auth so you're most likely going to have
to rewrite your log processing scripts.. or use the output from
radlast.. Or use the mysql accounting.

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 22:49, Norman Schmidt Jr wrote:
> Hi Folks!
> Just installed gnu-radius 0.96.3 on Slackware 8.1. I plan to migrate to
> MySQL userbase, but for now I just using Auth=System and trying to
> substitute the old machine which runs an old version of cistron radius...
> Everything seems to work fine in this new server, users authenticate ok, BUT
> there is no radwtmp file on /var/log, there is a /var/log/radutmp but its
> empty and never change (so radwho and radlast are useless) and only the
> "detail.auth" file is being generated, the good old plain "detail" file with
> starts and stops isnt being generated. That "detail.auth" is useless for me
> too, since my log processing scripts all rely on the starts/stops of the old
> format "detail" file.
> Any hints would be greatly appreciated!
> Regards,
> _____________________________________________________________
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> http://www.norman.com.br        Soluções com Linux desde 1996
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