Re: [TCLUG:19180] debian: running init scripts from cron

["Troy A. Johnson" <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

John,

Is it the same radius server (can you say which one)? If it is a
different server altogether it may be possible for radiusd to reread its
configuration files without actually stopping and starting the server.
If you've confirmed that this is not the case, you may want to call a
script to do your restart:

/etc/init.d/radiusd stop
# sleep 1
/etc/init.d/radiusd start

The sleep is probably unnecessary, but it may stop some problems from
occurring.

HTH

Troy

John Hawley wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm sure this is quite the Debian rookie question, but is there some
> trick to getting an init script to run from cron?  I'm running a radius
> server that needs restarted when the users file is modified, and just
> rerunning the init script from cron worked fine under Mandrake but fails
> under Debian.  I get the messages from the /etc/init.d/radiusd script
> that radiusd has been restarted, but the pid on the process has not
> changed, so I know it wasn't actually done.  Running the script manually
> from root works fine.
> 
> Am I missing some security related thing here?  Let me know if I should
> post more detail.  Thanks.
> 
> --
> John Hawley
> Network Administrator
> IT Services // BGEA
> 612.335.1334 <=> jhawley@bgea.org
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe@mn-linux.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help@mn-linux.org

-- 
Troy Johnson   mailto:john1536@tc.umn.edu   http://umn.edu/~john1536/
...I'm going to slap the faces right off of your skulls!
	-- CAJ