[tac_plus] Re: Accounting difficulties

[john heasley]

Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:32:32AM -0500, Schmitz Corby:
> I have been working with the latest build of tac_plus distributed on  
> your website. I have been successful at getting everything working  
> (includeing ACL support which is why I chose this version in the first  
> place) except for accounting. I was using the Ubuntu distribution  
> previously and with the accounting directive in the configuration  
> file, things just worked:
> accounting file = /var/log/tac-plus/accounting
> Under the current version:
> root at nms221:/usr/local/tacacs+-F4.0.4.18# /usr/local/tacacs/bin/ 
> tac_plus -v
> tac_plus version F4.0.4.18
> ACLS
> FIONBIO
> LIBWRAP
> LINUX
> LITTLE_ENDIAN
> LOG_DAEMON
> PAM
> NO_PWAGE
> REAPCHILD
> RETSIGTYPE RETSIGTYPE
> SHADOW_PASSWORDS
> SIGTSTP
> SIGTTIN
> SIGTTOU
> SO_REUSEADDR
> STRERROR
> TAC_PLUS_PORT
> UENABLE
> __STDC__
> 
> I cannot seem to get it working again. I have tried building with a  
> specific entry for the accounting file when I run configure prior to  
> building:
> --with-acctfile=/var/log/tac-plus/account
> 
> With our without this entry and despite what is in the configuration  
> file, nothing ever gets written to the accounting log file.

errors in syslog?  does accounting work when set to syslog?  does the
daemon run chroot'd?  tried accounting debugging in the daemon to be
sure the device in sending accounting?