Section 2.8.1. Tips for Radiator on Windows

2.8.1. Tips for Radiator on Windows

This section lists some useful notes for installing and using Radiator in Windows environment:

Radiator can be installed as a Windows Service. See file:/data/radiator-reference-manual/source/HighAvailabilityradiusd/SystemServiceWindows_HighAvailability.dita#SystemServiceWindows_HighAvailability for more information.
Perl on Windows automatically maps Unix style file names to DOS style (for example, changes / to \), so when you specify file names in the Radiator configuration file on Windows, you can use either Unix or Windows style. To avoid conflicts, choose one and use it consistently.

Notes for special configurations:

Some ODBC drivers (notably Oracle) intercept the SIGINT handler, which makes it hard to kill radiusd with Control-C from within an Command Prompt window. To avoid this, create a shortcut to run radiusd, then you can always shut the window to kill radiusd.
Some DBM file formats produced by AnyDBM_File on a PC and used by <AuthBy DBM> are not compatible with DBM files formats produced by Unix. If you create them with builddbm on one host, they may not be readable by Radiator on a different host. If in doubt, build the DBM file in the similar environment as the target host.
radpwtst in -gui mode does not work properly on Windows, due to a bug in Tk.