[Users] new MediaProxy release 1.8.2

[Adrian Georgescu]

Dear Jeremy,

You are looking in the wrong place for clues why your setup isn't  
working and make wrong assumptions that confuse people on the mailing  
lists.

The mysql and radius accounting are enabled in modules/accounting.py  
at lines 17 and 18

from radius import *
from mysql import *

Regards,
Adrian

On Feb 24, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Jeremy McNamara wrote:

> Adrian Georgescu wrote:
>> Jeremy,
>> Both mysql and radius accounting are enabled through  
>> configuration. You do not have to change any line of code to make  
>> the accounting working. I hope other people on the list can  
>> provide you with some help with configuration for your operating  
>> system, python and mysql client version.
>
>
> Totally W R O N G!
>
>
> Let me detail code directly from the v1.8.2 tarball:
>
>
> ## We use this to overwrite some of the settings above on a local  
> basis if needed
> readSettings('Accounting', AccountingConfig)
> readSettings('Database', DatabaseConfig)
>
> #try:
> #    from mysql import *
> #except ImportError:
> #    if AccountingConfig.accounting == 'database':
> #        error("The MySQLdb module which is required to do  
> accounting is missing")
> #        raise
> #try:
> #    from radius import *
> #except ImportError:
> #    if AccountingConfig.accounting == 'radius':
> #        error("The pyrad module which is required to do accounting  
> is missing")
> #        raise
>
> ModulesPath = os.path.realpath((os.path.dirname(__file__) or '.'))
> ProgramName = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0] or  
> 'python'))[0]
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>
> I am by no means a python expert but it seems # is a comment  
> character.
>
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>
> Someone please enlighten me how commented code can be turned back  
> on via configuration. I am dying to know - Seriously.
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> Jeremy McNamara
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