Bug 921567

Summary: raddebug -t 0 exists immediately
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Lukas "krteknet" Novy <lnovy>
Component: freeradiusAssignee: Nikolai Kondrashov <nikolai.kondrashov>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Jaroslav Aster <jaster>
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Version: 6.4CC: dpal, ebenes, jaster, je, pkis
Target Milestone: rc   
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Fixed In Version: freeradius-2.2.6-1.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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After starting raddebug using the "raddebug -t 0" command, raddebug exited immediately. A typo in the special case comparison has been fixed, and raddebug now runs for 11.5 days in this situation.
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Last Closed: 2015-07-22 06:16:37 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Lukas "krteknet" Novy 2013-03-14 12:57:25 UTC 
Description of problem:
raddebug tool from freeradius normally exists in 60 seconds, this can be overriden by -t cli option. Man page of radebug mentions that passing "-t 0" to raddebug will make it run forever.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
freeradius-2.1.12-4.el6_3

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure freeradius to accept commands via control-socket (see raddebug manpage)
2. Start radiusd service
3. Start raddebug -t 0
  
Actual results:
raddebug immediately exists

Expected results:
raddebug keeps running

Additional info:
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2013-03-14 13:10:24 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 2 Jean-Eudes ONFRAY 2013-03-29 09:46:21 UTC 
I faced the same problem. It's a typo in /usr/sbin/raddebug

Here's a patch:
--- raddebug.orig	2013-03-29 10:45:10.615000000 +0100
+++ /usr/sbin/raddebug	2013-03-29 10:45:51.946000000 +0100
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 	extra="-f $OPTARG"
 	;;
   t)	timeout="$OPTARG"
-	[ "$timout" = "0" ] && timeout=1000000
+	[ "$timeout" = "0" ] && timeout=1000000
 	;;
   u)	condition="(User-Name == $OPTARG)"
 	;;
Comment 3 Lukas "krteknet" Novy 2013-03-29 10:23:31 UTC 
Great, thanks!

I made a pull request with this fix
https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/pull/262
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2013-10-13 23:48:43 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 06:16:37 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1287.html