How to use svc_acct.import

[A P Blogg]

I worked on it for a while and finally worked out that the USERS file was
rejected if it contained more than one specification on one line, ie
"Auth-Type = System, Framed-Protocol = PPP," .. it liked it when I seperated
that into two lines...

But now, I'm getting the following error...

--
Unkonwn svcpart at ./svc_acct.import line 201, <PASSWD> chunk 1.
--

Any ideas?

(by the way, I really appreciate your help and patience through all my
confusion, thank you for that.)


Sincerely,

A P Blogg

Administration and Sales
URL: http://www.immortalnet.com.au
E-Mail: apblogg at immortalnet.com.au

-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan Kohler <ivan at sisd.com>
To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: How to use svc_acct.import


>On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 11:35:32AM +1000, A P Blogg wrote:
>> The error I'm getting is such as
>>
>> --
>> 1Unexpected line in users.import:
>>
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> at ./svc_acct.import line 128, <USERS> chunk 2.
>> --
>>
>> And that line is a comment within the /etc/raddb/users file..
>>
>> If I take the comments out, it reads passed the username and Password and
>> chucks the sort of error out while reading "Auth-TYPE = ... blah blah" ..
>>
>> That specific enough?
>
>The first part was.  The second part wasn't.
>
>It is *ALWAYS* better to report the actual error.  "the sort of error"
>does me no good.
>
>I'm guessing that your second error is "2Unexpected line"... instead of
>"1Unexpected line"...  but unless you report the *EXACT* error message,
>that's just what it is, a guess.
>
>I thought the list subscription message ("report the exact error message")
>was clear on this point.  If anyone could suggest a better message I'll
>be happy to change it, to avoid this sort of noise on the list.
>
>It looks like svc_acct.import doesn't deal well with comments and
>multi-attribute lines.  You could massage your data before feeding it to
>svc_acct.import, or fix svc_acct.import to deal with these things.
>
>If you do the latter, I'd appriciate if you could contribute the changes
>back into the distibution.
>
>I'll try to take a look at it at some point, but I've been very busy
>latley.
>
>
>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> A P Blogg
>>
>> Administration and Sales
>> URL: http://www.immortalnet.com.au
>> E-Mail: apblogg at immortalnet.com.au
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ivan Kohler <ivan at sisd.com>
>> To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
>> Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 2:17 AM
>> Subject: Re: How to use svc_acct.import
>>
>>
>> >On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 11:25:50AM +1000, A P Blogg wrote:
>> >> svc_acct.import doesn't like my radius USERS file..
>> >
>> >It would certainly help if you could be more specific.
>> >
>> >> my typical users file looks something like this..
>> >>
>> >> boffey  Password = "secret"
>> >>         Auth-Type = System, Framed-Protocol = PPP,
>> >>         Service-Type = Framed-User,
>> >>         Framed-Protocol = PPP,
>> >>         Framed-MTU = 1500,
>> >>         Session-Timeout = 21600,
>> >>         Idle-Timeout = 900,
>> >>         Acct-Session-Time = 1,
>> >>         Acct-Input-Octets = 1,
>> >>         Acct-Output-Octets = 1,
>> >>         LOGINS = 1
>> >>
>> >> ---
>> >>
>> >> Anything wierdly different about my config that can't be handled?
>> >
>> >Probably not.  Whether or not you'll get free hand-holding is a
different
>> >question, though (I won't, and most everyone else capable has long since
>> >unsubscribed from the list).
>> >
>> >--
>> >Ivan Kohler <ivan at sisd.com> - finger for PGP key - <moc.dsis at navi>
Relhok
>> Navi
>> >Open-source billing and administration for ISPs -
>> http://www.sisd.com/freeside
>> >20 4,16 * * * saytime # please don't be surprised if you find me
dreaming
>> too
>>
>
>--
>Ivan Kohler <ivan at sisd.com> - finger for PGP key - <moc.dsis at navi> Relhok
Navi
>Open-source billing and administration for ISPs -
http://www.sisd.com/freeside
>20 4,16 * * * saytime # please don't be surprised if you find me dreaming
too