SP - attribute policy file not reloading on changes?

[John Horne]

On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 14:54 +0000, Cantor, Scott wrote:
> On 1/25/18, 9:44 AM, "users on behalf of John Horne" <users-bounces at shibbolet
> h.net on behalf of john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > The shibd log file shows no indication that the policy file has been
> > reloaded. However, my first question should perhaps be how often does shibd
> > check for a change of the file? Other than that, any ideas why the file
> > would not be reloaded?
>
> The algorithm for a local file is just to check the modified time every time
> the file is locked, although that's something that will be moved to a
> background thread in a future version since it's causing race conditions in
> Apache. Today it's quite predictable and it definitely works so the facts in
> evidence are off somewhere.
>
Quite right! I modified the file and then monitored the log file to see if the
change was detected. This was on a test server - so no other users - it was
only when I actually tried to SSO into the local resource, via shibboleth, that
the change was then detected!

Apologies for the noise. I should have actually tried logging in before calling
for help.

Thanks again,

John.

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John Horne | Senior Operations Analyst | Technology and Information Services
University of Plymouth | Drake Circus | Plymouth | Devon | PL4 8AA | UK
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