FreeRADIUS NAS change restarter What is this? A MySQL table definition, triggers, and a python program to track changes to the NAS table and restart FreeRADIUS after ensuring that other RADIUS servers are running (to avoid creating downtime). Why would I use it? You run FreeRADIUS with a MySQL backend. You have a web interface to add or change NAS definitions. You don't want to manually restart FreeRADIUS on each server every time you change a NAS with your web interface. Yes, FreeRADIUS only reads the NAS table once at startup: http://lists.cistron.nl/pipermail/freeradius-users/2005-June/msg00113.html What does it need to run? Python 2 pyrad 2: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyrad/2.0 MySQL for Python (python-mysqldb) How do I use this? Create the NAS updates table by loading sql/table.sql into MySQL. Load triggers from sql/triggers.sql Customize reloader.json for your environment. Save reloader.json to /etc/reloader.json Make sure /var/lib/reloader exists and the user that will run reloader has read and write permissions to it. Make sure there is at least one entry in the nas_changes table as the result of a change in the nas table Run reloader.py from cron every 5 minutes or so.
