On Sat, 15 Nov 2014, Bj”rn Felten wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> can you be more secific? when i installed radius it did everything 
 ml> that argus did out of the box with no tweaking...

 BF>    Maybe your Argus settings were so rudimentary that you didn't
 BF> notice? 8-) 

no... radius and taurus use the same config files as argus... switching
between them is as easy as stopping one and starting the other... providing,
of course, that all the binaries are in the same directory...

 BF>    Absolutely nothing was imported/re-used from Argus. Well, the
 BF> passwords were, but as far as I could see nothing else.

you could have copied the argus stuff to another directory and put the radius
binary in the original directory and started it up... it would have been
exactly the same as argus other than the bug fixes and new features...

 BF>    Just having to reconfigure all my External settings would take
 BF> all day, and then I'll never know for sure if it works OK for at
 BF> least another 24 hours (in some cases a week).

you /don't/ have to do that at all... they use the exact same config files...
everything is the same except for maybe some new settings being added...

 BF>    Not to mention all my Line settings for the modem and the IP
 BF> line, with all the allow and disallow flags, nodes, init strings,
 BF> etc, etc. 

there's nothing to change or reconfigure... archive your existing setup or
copy it to another directory and then try with the new binary... if it works,
great! if it doesn't the remove the radius or taurus binaries and copy or
unarchive the old config stuff back over the top and carry on... it isn't
rocket science ;)

 BF>    Nah, I'll stick with Argus for now.

alright... whatever ;)

)\/(ark

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