1. Naming Conventions

This chapter describes file naming conventions used throughout this document.

Programs from the GNU Radius package use the following directories to store various configuration and log files:

Configuration or database directory: A directory where all configuration files are stored.
Log directory: A directory where radiusd stores its log files.
Accounting directory: A directory where radiusd stores accounting detail files (see section Detailed Request Accounting).
Data directory: A directory where shared data files are stored, such as Rewrite or Scheme source files.

The default locations of these directories are determined at compile time. Usually these are:

Directory	Short name	Default location
Configuration directory	‘`raddb`’	/usr/local/etc/raddb
Log directory	‘`radlog`’	/var/log
Accounting directory	‘`radacct`’	/var/log/radacct
Data directory	‘`datadir`’	/usr/local/share/radius/1.6

These locations may differ depending on your local site configuration.

Throughout this document we will refer to these directories by their short names. For example, when we say:

... this information is contained in file ‘raddb/sqlserver’

we actually mean ‘/usr/local/etc/raddb/sqlserver’.

To get the default directory names that your version of Radius was compiled with, run radiusd --version.

Locations of these directories may be overridden by specifying the appropriate command line options. For example, any program from the GNU Radius package accepts the command line option ‘-d’ or ‘--directory’, which introduces the configuration directory path.

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