(PM) excessive activity in syslog from Radius

Paulo Fraser (pfraser@pro.net)
Tue, 26 May 1998 12:42:22 -0700

I've noticed that Radius seems to generate an excessive amount of
information for syslog and was wondering if this was normal, or if not,
what would be causing it. If I look in the log files I see stuff like this:

Tue May 26 11:57:28 1998: [362] sending SIGHUP signal to unresponsive child
process 22990
Tue May 26 11:57:28 1998: [362] sending SIGHUP signal to unresponsive child
process 23007
Tue May 26 11:57:28 1998: [362] sending SIGHUP signal to unresponsive child
process 23020
Tue May 26 11:57:28 1998: [362] sending SIGHUP signal to unresponsive child
process 23023
Tue May 26 11:57:28 1998: [362] sending SIGHUP signal to unresponsive child
process 23026
Tue May 26 11:57:28 1998: [362] sending SIGHUP signal to unresponsive child
process 23029
Tue May 26 11:57:28 1998: [362] sending SIGHUP signal to unresponsive child
process 23034
Tue May 26 11:59:39 1998: [362] sending SIGHUP signal to unresponsive child
process 23221

Notice how it's a lot of entries in a very short time period. This really
makes the log files get very big very quickly and is quite annoying. Other
than this Radius seems to be working just fine. The equipment I have is
two Portmaster 2e's with 20 modems each. Radius is running on our Sun
Sparc running Solaris 2.6, although it's only version 2.0.

This also happened with the previous version of Radius (1.5 ?? - I forget)
and I was hoping version 2.0 would get rid of this behaviour. I doubt that
upgrading to Radius 2.1 would fix this and I'm afraid I would have to
modify all my scripts that process the Radius detail files again.

Any explanations or help would be very much appreciated.

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